Chapter Summaries

Su Bai killed the demon Silver Wind and broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, surprising Wang Yuan and the two demon cultivators. Wang Yuan sent Su Bai to the office while Blood Monk and Old Turtle left for the Buddhist Kingdom to report the turn of events to the Nine-tailed Empress.

• Su Bai explained that he had advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm during battle and killed Silver Wind, then asked Wang Yuan what to do with the demon's head.
• Wang Yuan was astonished by Su Bai's strength and directed him to take Silver Wind's head to the office, keeping the matter from escalating around Blood Monk and Old Turtle.
• Su Bai left, while Blood Monk worried that Su Bai might have recognized their identities as demon cultivators.
• Wang Yuan urged Blood Monk and Old Turtle to return to the Buddhist Kingdom and seek the Nine-tailed Empress's judgment.
• Blood Monk and Old Turtle flew east, warning Wang Yuan that they would report his obstruction to the Nine-tailed Empress.

After Su Bai killed two Demon Cultivators in Ning City, Wang Yuan sent him to Cloud City and sought help from Night Envoy Po Jun. Su Bai arrived in Cloud City, passed the Night Watcher assessment, and learned that Great Qian’s Tribute City System allowed Demon Cultivator nobles to consume humans.

• Wang Yuan destroyed the evidence of the Demon Cultivator’s identity, gave Su Bai a letter of introduction, and sent him to Cloud City for safety and a new post.
• Wang Yuan told Po Jun that Su Bai had killed Nine Tails’s son and subordinate, and Po Jun promised to sound out Nine Tails and send help if needed.
• Su Bai reached Cloud City and presented Wang Yuan’s letter to Po Jun while concealing his true cultivation.
• Po Jun explained that Ning City was a Tribute City where Demon Cultivator nobles could legally consume humans, and gave Su Bai a Jade Slip about the system.
• Po Jun told Su Bai that he had passed the Night Watcher assessment, gave him his new uniform, token, Communication Artifact, and salary, and said he would arrange a post.

After Po Jun judged that Nine Tails posed a threat to Su Bai, he arranged to send him far north for safety. Su Bai rested in Cloud City, then received orders to travel to Wu Feng City and take up the post of Chief Steward.

• Po Jun decided to send Su Bai away from southwestern Yan State because Nine Tails was determined to kill him.
• Po Jun contacted Old Ghost and arranged to transfer Su Bai to the far north, intending to move Ning Yu there later as well.
• Su Bai left the Night Watcher stronghold and stayed at an inn in Cloud City while his immortal arts recovered.
• Su Bai reflected on how he had concealed his true cultivation from Po Jun and worried that Nine Tails might come after him.
• After three days, Po Jun informed Su Bai that he was to head to Wu Feng City on the Northern Province frontier and become Chief Steward.

Su Bai reached Northern Province after a month of travel and learned why General Po Jun had sent him to the dangerous border region. As he arrived, a Demon Cultivator abducted a farmer and ate him in a cave.

• Su Bai traveled across Great Qian by Escape Light, observing its cultivator-centered society while keeping his true strength concealed.
• After a month, Su Bai reached Northern Province, where Great Qian faced incursions from the Heavenly Demon Sacred Dynasty, Eternal Night Forest, and Stone Domain Country.
• General Po Jun had sent Su Bai to Northern Province to distance him from Yan State's troubles and give him a chance to prove himself.
• A Rat Demon abducted a hardworking farmer who had been raising money for his son's education.
• The Rat Demon ate the farmer and praised how chewy the meat was.

Su Bai arrived in Northern Province, discovered Demon Cultivators hiding near Copper City, and killed a Rat Demon that had eaten a farmer. After reporting to Ghost Cry, he received Copper City's administrative duties and set out to take over the post.

• Su Bai surveyed Copper City with his Primordial Spirit and detected more than a hundred concealed Demon Cultivators nearby, including a Rat Demon eating a farmer.
• Su Bai killed the Rat Demon with Five-Colored Sword Qi and burned the farmer's remains before leaving for Ghost Cry's stronghold.
• Su Bai met Night Envoy Ghost Cry, who gave him a Jade Slip detailing Copper City's population and food-production quotas.
• Ghost Cry warned Su Bai not to falsify the city's annual data and advised him that administration differed from fighting enemies.
• Su Bai left the stronghold and flew toward Copper City to meet the previous Chief Steward and take over.

Su Bai arrived in Copper City’s Copper Mine Area and exposed a Golden Core Demon Cultivator hiding among the farmers. He spared the demon Huang Tian and ordered him to warn all demons to leave Copper City within one day.

• Su Bai studied Copper City’s records and chose the Copper Mine Area, where demon attacks and disappearances were most frequent, as his first target.
• Su Bai identified a Golden Core Demon Cultivator disguised as a farmer and pierced its dantian with Sword Qi, revealing its weasel form.
• The farmers attacked the powerless demon, but Su Bai stopped them and demanded to know whether it wanted to live.
• Su Bai told Huang Tian to warn every Demon Cultivator in Copper City to leave within one day or face torture and death.
• Su Bai restored Huang Tian’s dantian and Spiritual Power, then sent him to deliver the warning.

Su Bai arrived in Copper City and formally took over as Chief Steward from Ji Ling, who left for another frontline Tribute City. After the handover, Su Bai kept the ten Golden Core stewards behind and began learning about his new subordinates.

• Nearby Night Watchers recognized Su Bai as the incoming Chief Steward and saluted him.
• Su Bai arrived at the Copper City stronghold, gathered its Night Watchers, and received their greetings.
• Ji Ling introduced himself, handed Su Bai the handover Jade Slip, and departed for another Tribute City.
• Su Bai dismissed the other Night Watchers and asked the ten Golden Core stewards to remain.
• Su Bai ordered Blood Rabbit to lead the stewards to the discussion hall.

Su Bai ordered Copper City's stewards to hunt down Demon Cultivators and used his Primordial Spirit to discover that Yin Xue, a Nascent Soul Demon Cultivator, was hiding in Hundred Flowers Pavilion. He entered the pleasure house in disguise to investigate and capture her, but was puzzled by her lack of Demonic Miasma.

• Su Bai told the ten stewards to search Copper City for Demon Cultivators and bring captured targets to him for his Alchemy Punishment.
• Su Bai sensed a hidden Nascent Soul Demon Cultivator and decided to investigate her himself.
• Su Bai traced the Demon Cultivator to Yin Xue, a courtesan performing at Hundred Flowers Pavilion.
• Su Bai suppressed his cultivation and entered through the Phoenix Sun Gate, drawing attention with his extraordinary appearance.
• Su Bai wondered why Yin Xue showed none of the Demonic Miasma usually left by Demon Cultivators who had devoured many people.

Su Bai entered Phoenix Sun Gate to investigate Yin Xue, a Nascent Soul Demon Cultivator whose performances and enchantment art lured guests into her grasp. After watching her show without being affected, he was chosen to stay with her, leaving his investigation poised to continue in private.

• Yin Xue sensed Su Bai's apparent Golden Core cultivation and allowed him into Phoenix Sun Gate.
• Su Bai met Yang Jiang, who explained Yin Xue's reputation, her dual cultivation art, and how her previous guests became listless afterward.
• Yin Xue performed, and Su Bai sensed that her talent passively drew on Law Power to enchant the audience.
• Su Bai resisted Yin Xue's enchantment and was selected to remain behind as the highest-cultivated guest.

Su Bai met Yin Xue in the Hundred Flowers Pavilion and resisted her powerful bewitchment, then demanded to know why she recognized him. Yin Xue gave him a Jade Slip and claimed that the entire Fox Clan of the Blue Origin Realm had heard of him.

• A maid led Su Bai through the Hundred Flowers Pavilion to Yin Xue's flower-filled boudoir.
• Su Bai let Yin Xue's bewitching Law Power affect him briefly, then restored his defenses and cleared the illusions from his mind.
• Yin Xue reacted with surprise when Su Bai introduced himself, and Su Bai drew the Tiangang Sword and demanded an explanation.
• Yin Xue realized Su Bai had been acting and, wary of his strength, handed him a Jade Slip.
• Yin Xue told Su Bai that the entire Fox Clan of the Blue Origin Realm had heard of him, and Su Bai examined the Jade Slip.

Su Bai learned that Nine Tails had placed a bounty on him for killing her son, but he dismissed the threat and turned his attention to Yin Xue. He spared her on the condition that she reveal her true form and acknowledge him as her master, and she transformed into a small fox-eared demon girl.

• Yin Xue showed Su Bai the wanted order issued by Nine Tails, offering rewards for reporting, killing, or capturing him.
• Su Bai suspected Nine Tails had learned about his transfer through hidden informants, but decided the bounty posed no real threat.
• Yin Xue sensed Su Bai's killing intent, knelt, and begged him to spare her, insisting she had never devoured a human in Copper City.
• Su Bai chose to spare Yin Xue because he wanted to investigate her unusual talent, and demanded that she reveal her true form and acknowledge him as her master.
• Yin Xue gave in to her fear of Su Bai's sword and transformed into a small demon girl with white fox ears and a tail.

Yin Xue offered Su Bai her Primordial Yin Body rather than submit to him as her master, since she needed to return to the Demon Kingdom to protect her Silver Fox Clan. Su Bai agreed to spare her and make her his inside agent, planting an Immortal Seed gu insect in her to report on Nine Tails.

• Yin Xue explained that submitting to Su Bai as her master would expose her to her clan and prevent her from returning to the Demon Kingdom.
• Yin Xue offered her Primordial Yin Body and explained that she had preserved it despite inviting cultivators into her bedchamber.
• Yin Xue told Su Bai that she needed to return to protect the little foxes of the Silver Fox Clan entrusted to her by her mother.
• Su Bai agreed to spare Yin Xue if she let him plant a gu insect in her and pass on news about Nine Tails.
• Yin Xue accepted Su Bai's terms, and Su Bai drew her into his embrace.

After gaining the Earth Tier talent Boundless Dao Source through his union with Yin Xue, Su Bai discovered that his Primordial Spirit power had surged dramatically. He then ordered the captured demons to undergo a public Alchemy Punishment in Copper City, with the process recorded as a warning to others.

• Su Bai reviewed his talents and realized his union with Yin Xue had helped him comprehend Boundless Dao Source.
• Su Bai noted that his Primordial Spirit power had risen to three hundred thousand li, greatly strengthening his perception and resistance to mental attacks.
• Blood Rabbit reported that Copper City's Night Watchers had captured one Golden Core dog demon and two Foundation Establishment snake demons.
• Su Bai ordered Blood Rabbit to erect an Alchemy Punishment altar at Copper City's gates and set up an Illusion Recording Array to broadcast the punishment to Demon Cultivators.

Su Bai used an altar in Copper City to stage an Alchemy Punishment, making three captured Demon Cultivators suffer while applying his Mental Law to frighten the demons watching from afar. He kept the victims alive with spirit plants and promised the punishment could last forty-nine days, driving them mad.

• Su Bai ordered an altar built, then sensed dozens of Demon Cultivators hiding nearby to watch the Alchemy Punishment.
• Su Bai placed a captured Dog Clan Demon Cultivator and two Snake Clan Demon Cultivators into his Alchemy Furnace and burned them with Alchemy Fire.
• Su Bai secretly used his Mental Law to amplify the victims’ screams and transmit their pain to the watching Demon Cultivators, who became terrified of him and Copper City.
• After hours of punishment, Su Bai added spirit plants to the furnace, restoring the three demons’ bodies and keeping them alive.
• Su Bai told the three demons they could endure the punishment for forty-nine days, and they broke down mentally and went mad.

Su Bai crippled three Demon Cultivators after using Alchemy Punishment to destroy their Divine Souls, then let Copper City's people beat them while keeping them alive as a warning. Over the next twelve days, he hunted down the remaining demons, driving every Demon Cultivator from Copper City as stories of the punishment spread across the Northern Province.

• Su Bai crippled the three crazed Demon Cultivators and ordered that the people could beat them but must keep them alive as a warning.
• Copper City's people attacked the demons, and Night Watchers intervened to stop the crowd from killing them.
• The county office turned the three demons into a paid attraction for visitors who wanted to beat them.
• Su Bai sensed that half the Demon Cultivators had fled and began personally patrolling Copper City for those who remained.
• Over ten days, Su Bai found and subjected the remaining Demon Cultivators to Alchemy Punishment until they fled the city.
• After twelve days in Copper City, Su Bai had driven out every Demon Cultivator, and stories of Ning Yu and the Alchemy Punishment spread across the Northern Province.

Su Bai took in Huang Tian as a Demon Traitor, marking his Golden Core and assigning him to serve with the Night Watchers. He dismissed warnings about the dangers of employing a Demon Traitor and placed Huang Tian under Blood Rabbit’s command.

• Huang Tian secretly returned to Copper City after Demon Cultivators branded him a traitor and decided to seek Su Bai’s protection.
• Su Bai appeared before Huang Tian, who offered his Golden Core and begged to become his servant.
• Su Bai marked Huang Tian’s Golden Core and appointed him to a temporary Night Watcher unit for patrol and guard duty.
• A steward warned Su Bai that Demon Cultivator aristocrats had caused past Chief Stewards who recruited Demon Traitors to be betrayed or killed.
• Su Bai said he would take responsibility and assigned Huang Tian to Blood Rabbit’s command.

Li Liang, a powerful leech demon, infiltrated Copper City to hide from pursuers, but Su Bai detected him and sent Huang Tian and Blood Rabbit to intercept him. Huang Tian quickly found and surrounded Li Liang at a farmstead, exposing his disguise and leaving him trapped.

• Li Liang decided Copper City would be a safe hiding place and secretly traveled there to feed and cultivate.
• Su Bai detected Li Liang as soon as he entered Copper City's boundaries and alerted Blood Rabbit and Huang Tian.
• Huang Tian used his demon senses to locate Li Liang at a farmstead, where Li Liang was preparing to possess a human.
• Huang Tian and five Golden Core stewards surrounded Li Liang's hiding place, and Li Liang recognized Huang Tian among them.

Su Bai subdued Li Liang, a leech demon, and used him alongside Huang Tian to help suppress demons in Copper City. A month later, the city had become safer and more prosperous, and Su Bai considered pursuing the Sword Dao Law with his next immortal art refresh.

• Li Liang cursed Huang Tian after the Night Watchers surrounded him, then asked to surrender to Copper City.
• The Blood Rabbit relayed Su Bai’s order to accept Li Liang, and Li Liang surrendered and let the Blood Rabbit seal his dantian.
• Su Bai marked Li Liang’s Golden Core, took him as a servant, and assigned him to the Night Watchers alongside Huang Tian.
• Huang Tian and Li Liang helped detect infiltrating demons, while Copper City grew safer over the following month.
• Su Bai surveyed Copper City and decided that the Sword Dao Law was the most promising target for his next immortal art refresh.

Su Bai learned through Yin Xue that Nine Tails had come to Eternal Night Forest and was seeking to deal with him, so he arranged for Blood Rabbit to oversee Copper City and prepared to confront the threat. After Ghost Cry warned him about Nine Tails and the Starry Night organization, Su Bai disguised himself and headed toward Eternal Night Forest.

• Su Bai received Yin Xue's warning that Nine Tails had arrived in Eternal Night Forest, learned of Su Bai, and imprisoned Yin Xue.
• Su Bai decided to go to Eternal Night Forest, arranged for Blood Rabbit to manage Copper City, and gave Huang Tian and Li Liang instructions.
• Ghost Cry warned Su Bai that Nine Tails was in Northern Province to take him down and advised him to hide.
• Ghost Cry also told Su Bai that Starry Night might target him for suppressing Demon Traitors and clearing Demon Cultivators from Copper City.
• Su Bai ended the call, changed his appearance, and followed the Immortal Seed's connection toward Eternal Night Forest and the Demon Kingdom.

Su Bai traveled to Burning Heaven City in the disguise of the old Daoist Lu Jiu to find Yin Xue, who had been imprisoned for refusing to reveal information about him. He introduced himself as Ning Yu’s master, leaving Yin Xue uncertain about why he had come.

• Su Bai crossed through Void Space and arrived at Burning Heaven City, the Crimson Flame Fox Clan’s prosperous stronghold.
• The Crimson Flame Fox Clan imprisoned Yin Xue after exposing her claim that she had left Copper City before Su Bai arrived there.
• Nine Tails questioned Yin Xue, but she denied knowing about Su Bai and later warned him through their Immortal Seed connection.
• Su Bai emerged from Void Space inside Yin Xue’s cell, disguised as an old Daoist, and introduced himself as Lu Jiu, Ning Yu’s master.