Chapter Summaries

Xu Chunniang absorbed Zhang Ding’s Pill Fire with her Five Elements Body Tempering Technique, enduring its heat as the Carefree Sect disciples feared for her safety. After Zhang Ding lost control of the flames, Xu Chunniang struck him off the arena and won the match.

• Zhang Ding split his Pill Fire into sixteen portions and sent them from every direction to trap Xu Chunniang.
• Xu Chunniang absorbed the Pill Fire into her body and used the Five Elements Body Tempering Technique to withstand the heat.
• Yue Lingzheng and the Carefree Sect disciples worried that Xu Chunniang was suffering and urged her to concede, while Huangfu Tian struggled with his hatred of her.
• Zhang Ding tried to withdraw his Pill Fire but lost his connection to it, and Xu Chunniang revealed that she had accepted the flames.
• Xu Chunniang rushed Zhang Ding, shattered his shields with a punch, and knocked him off the arena.

Xu Chunniang defeated Zhang Ding and faced Mo Lin, whose swift swordplay she countered with her divine sense before choosing to fight using only her tempered body. As she adapted to his attacks, Mo Lin broke through and unleashed Sword Qi, leaving the onlookers certain she would lose.

• Xu Chunniang's victory over Zhang Ding led the disciples to reconsider her strength and speculate that she had absorbed his Pill Fire.
• Elder Tang sent Mo Lin to challenge Xu Chunniang, and she evaded his swift sword attacks while closing the distance.
• Mo Lin used Myriad Layers of Sword Shadows, but Xu Chunniang broke the attack apart with her divine sense.
• Xu Chunniang withdrew her divine sense and relied on her tempered body to evade Mo Lin's relentless swordplay, improving her reactions as they fought.
• Mo Lin pushed his sword speed beyond its limit and unexpectedly unleashed Sword Qi, prompting onlookers to predict Xu Chunniang's defeat.

Xu Chunniang defeated Mo Lin and challengers from the Cold Mountain Sect and Boundless Sect, extending her winning streak to five consecutive arena matches. She waited on the arena for another challenger, one victory away from setting the competition’s record.

• Mo Lin unleashed Sword Qi that injured Xu Chunniang, but she pressed on and used the Green Patterned Cauldron to absorb another strike before knocking him unconscious with the Fire-Wielding Spear.
• Xu Chunniang defeated the Cold Mountain Sect’s final challenger with her mastery of the Art of Sword Riding, earning her fourth consecutive victory.
• Yue Lingzheng and Elder Wu celebrated Xu Chunniang’s four victories and the points she had earned for the Carefree Sect.
• Xu Chunniang defeated a Boundless Sect cultivator within a few exchanges, reaching five consecutive victories.
• Xu Chunniang waited for another challenger as the watching disciples discussed whether she could claim the arena’s most victories.

Xu Chunniang sent Little Orange to fight in her place, and the spirit beast won against a Marvelous Pill Sect cultivator, giving Xu six consecutive victories. Little Orange then faced the Myriad Sword Sect’s final disciple and revealed that it could form wings from spiritual energy.

• Xu Chunniang rested and sent Little Orange to challenge the Marvelous Pill Sect cultivator.
• Little Orange dodged the cultivator’s attacks, knocked her unconscious, and won the match.
• Xu Chunniang’s six consecutive victories silenced the crowd, while Cold Mountain Sect and Marvelous Pill Sect disciples argued over their standings.
• The Myriad Sword Sect’s final disciple took the stage and sent his spirit sword at Little Orange.
• Little Orange avoided the disciple’s twin swords by forming spiritual-energy wings and flying into the air.

Little Orange defeated a Myriad Sword Sect cultivator by swallowing his spirit swords, then faced the Boundless Sect’s final disciple despite its exhaustion. It broke free of a Golden Bell Talisman, won the match, and collapsed after its victory.

• Little Orange devoured the Myriad Sword Sect cultivator’s sword attacks and spirit swords, then defeated him in close combat.
• The sect disciples speculated that Little Orange might descend from an Ancient Strange Species with Divine Beast Blood.
• Xu Chunniang asked whether Little Orange could continue, and it charged at the Boundless Sect’s final disciple.
• The Boundless Sect disciple used a Golden Bell Talisman and a Chanting Bell to trap Little Orange and stir its ferocity.
• Little Orange burst out of the golden bell, grew faster and stronger, and beat the Boundless Sect disciple until he admitted defeat.
• Little Orange kept pursuing its fallen opponent, then collapsed from exhaustion.

After winning eight matches and helping the Carefree Sect place second, Xu Chunniang collected a huge betting payout. She left for Danxia Market to check on the Blood Soul Pill she had commissioned.

• Xu Chunniang found Little Orange exhausted after it broke the golden bell, then put it in her Spirit Beast Pouch and left the arena.
• Yue Lingzheng, Elder Wu, and the Carefree Sect disciples celebrated Xu Chunniang’s eight victories and the sect’s second-place finish, while Huangfu Tian renewed his resolve to avenge Yao'er.
• The Myriad Sword Sect left after placing third, and Lan Zhi silenced a Cold Mountain Sect disciple who dismissed Xu Chunniang’s spirit-beast victories.
• Xu Chunniang presented her betting contract and received six hundred thousand spirit stones, keeping the Storage Ring after its owner offered it as a gift.
• Xu Chunniang revealed that she was the bettor’s mysterious choice, then headed to Danxia Market to collect her commissioned Blood Soul Pill.

After buying Blood Soul Pills and spirit-beast pills, Xu Chunniang left with the Carefree Sect disciples, whose Flying Ship was ambushed by evil cultivators on the journey home. Forced to flee, she drew two pursuers into the mountains and hid after setting a trapping formation, while the Black-faced Evil Cultivator sensed danger nearby.

• Xu Chunniang collected three Blood Soul Pills and bought every spirit-beast pill in the pill shop for Little Orange and Little White.
• Three days after the Carefree Sect Flying Ship departed, at least three Golden Core evil cultivators and numerous Foundation Establishment cultivators ambushed it and shattered its formations.
• Elder Wu and Yue Lingzheng stayed behind to fight as the Carefree Sect disciples fled, but pursuing evil cultivators caught and killed some of them.
• Two Foundation Establishment Late Stage evil cultivators pursued Xu Chunniang, whose Spiritual Qi Bullets they corroded with a Black Banner.
• Xu Chunniang descended into a mountain range and set a simple trapping formation before concealing herself; the Black-faced Evil Cultivator sensed something amiss.

Xu Chunniang used successive formations to stall two Foundation Establishment Late Stage evil cultivators while preparing a counterattack. The Banner-wielding Evil Cultivator broke through her Defensive Formation, but the killing formation remained between the pursuers and Xu Chunniang.

• The Black-faced Evil Cultivator detected a hidden formation and sent Hidden Armor Beetles into it, discovering that it was a killing formation.
• The Banner-wielding Evil Cultivator attacked the formation from outside while Xu Chunniang sent out white mist and set up a Defensive Formation.
• The Banner-wielding Evil Cultivator used his Black Banner to absorb the mist and some of Xu Chunniang's divine sense.
• Xu Chunniang condensed more than a dozen Spiritual Qi Bullets as the Banner-wielding Evil Cultivator corroded her Defensive Formation.
• The Defensive Formation shattered, and the Banner-wielding Evil Cultivator told the Black-faced Evil Cultivator to break the remaining killing formation.

Xu Chunniang killed the Black-faced Evil Cultivator with a surprise blast of Spiritual Qi Bullets, but the Banner-wielding Evil Cultivator caught up and attacked her. Little Walnut’s heavenly fire drove back the Black Banner’s mist, forcing the enemy to switch to a strange mirror as Xu Chunniang continued to evade its beams.

• The Black-faced Evil Cultivator took over breaking the formation, and Xu Chunniang sent several hundred Spiritual Qi Bullets at him while fleeing.
• The blast destroyed the trapping formation and killed the Black-faced Evil Cultivator, while the Banner-wielding Evil Cultivator pursued Xu Chunniang.
• The Banner-wielding Evil Cultivator caught up and used the Black Banner to send black mist toward Xu Chunniang, which initially eroded her divine sense.
• Little Walnut released heavenly fire that burned away the mist and nearly struck the Black Banner, forcing the Banner-wielding Evil Cultivator to put it away.
• The Banner-wielding Evil Cultivator attacked with a worn mirror, and Xu Chunniang dodged its successive beams.

Xu Chunniang defeated the evil cultivator Zixuan after a fierce battle, then escaped the area and recovered from her exhaustion. While inspecting his Storage Rings, she gained 300,000 spirit stones and retrieved the Black Banner, but the three Golden Core evil cultivators were still waiting for news of Zixuan.

• Xu Chunniang overcame Zixuan’s Twin Halberds with the Fire-Wielding Spear, burned him with Heavenly Fire, and killed him with a strike to the head.
• Xu Chunniang took Zixuan’s Storage Ring, burned his remains, erased the battle traces, and fled on her flying sword.
• Three Golden Core evil cultivators found traces of the Black Banner and worried that Zixuan had met with misfortune, but decided to wait for a voice transmission.
• After five days of flight, Xu Chunniang set up a Stealth Formation and rested with Little Orange and Little White guarding her.
• Xu Chunniang destroyed one Storage Ring after removing its usable materials, then found 300,000 spirit stones and other valuable items in the second.
• Xu Chunniang dismissed the idea of searching for the Black-faced Evil Cultivator’s lost Storage Ring and took out the Black Banner.

Xu Chunniang destroyed the Black Banner, partially refined the Soul-Fixing Mirror, and discovered that evil cultivators had detailed intelligence on the Five Great Sects. She disguised herself and took a detour toward home while the Carefree Sect discussed joining the other sects in a campaign against the evil cultivators.

• Xu Chunniang burned the Black Banner to ashes and learned that the Soul-Fixing Mirror could immobilize a cultivator's divine soul by consuming her divine sense.
• Xu Chunniang found detailed intelligence on the Five Great Sects in the dead evil cultivator's Jade Slip, including records about herself and her fellow disciples.
• Xu Chunniang used the Bone Shrinking Qi Changing Technique to disguise herself as a middle-aged Rogue Cultivator and flew away from the direct route to the Carefree Sect.
• Yue Lingzheng told Lu Yuanming that Senior Sister Wu had died covering his escape, and Lu Yuanming reported that evil cultivators had also ambushed the Boundless Sect and Cold Mountain Sect.
• The Carefree Sect's Golden Core Elders demanded retaliation, while Lu Yuanming waited for the Myriad Sword Sect and Marvelous Pill Sect to state their positions on a joint campaign.

Xu Chunniang returned safely to the Carefree Sect after killing the evil cultivators pursuing her, only to learn that the Five Great Sects had already launched an expedition against their lair. She privately told Deputy Sect Master Yue Lingzheng that she had important information about the evil cultivators to report.

• The Five Great Sects prepared to attack the evil cultivators, and Yue Yanru led Thousand Mechanisms Peak’s disciples to join the expedition.
• Xu Chunniang saw the Carefree Sect’s warship depart, returned to the sect, and learned from the gatekeeping disciples that her master had gone to battle.
• The disciples explained that five Nascent Soul elders were leading the operation to purge the evil cultivators.
• Xu Chunniang rode to the Main Peak and told Yue Lingzheng that she had urgent information about the evil cultivators.
• Yue Lingzheng dismissed the nearby disciples and raised a barrier so Xu Chunniang could speak privately.

Xu Chunniang warned Yue Lingzheng that evil cultivators had infiltrated the Five Great Sects, prompting him to alert Lu Yuanming aboard the warship. After Xu Chunniang returned safely to Lesser Witch Mountain, Yue Yanru learned the news and Xu Chunniang reunited with Little White and Little Orange.

• Xu Chunniang gave Yue Lingzheng a Jade Slip containing intelligence from an evil cultivator and warned that enemies might be hidden within the sect.
• Yue Lingzheng sent a message to Lu Yuanming, who judged that the Five Great Sects could still defeat the evil cultivators at Mount Wuwang and planned to investigate infiltrators afterward.
• Lu Yuanming told Yue Yanru that Xu Chunniang had safely returned to the sect, then asked her to gather the other senior cultivators to discuss the evil cultivators.
• Xu Chunniang returned to her cave dwelling on Lesser Witch Mountain and released Little White and Little Orange from her Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Xu Chunniang learned that Little Orange had eaten nearly thirty bottles of pills and decided to buy it more, though in smaller quantities.

Xu Chunniang returned to her sect after half a year away and reunited with Huo Chunyan, who had feared for her safety. Huo Chunyan learned Xu had won eight consecutive matches in the Five Sects Grand Competition and suggested she might enter the Azure Cloud Ranking.

• Xu Chunniang contacted Huo Chunyan and worried about the sect members campaigning against the evil cultivators.
• Huo Chunyan visited Xu Chunniang, embraced her, and asked how she had escaped two Foundation Establishment Late Stage pursuers.
• Xu Chunniang gave Huo Chunyan two High-grade Youthful Appearance Pills as thanks for helping her obtain spiritual artifacts.
• Huo Chunyan said Senior Sister Gan was also taking part in the campaign and hoped she would return safely.
• Huo Chunyan asked whether Xu Chunniang had truly won eight consecutive matches and told her she might enter the Azure Cloud Ranking.

Xu Chunniang learned about the Azure Cloud Ranking and worried that her low cultivation would keep her from helping with the sects’ purge of evil cultivators. She brought Little Orange and Little White to the Dragon Transformation Pool to cultivate, where Little Orange found a rare Spirit Transformation Stone, leaving Xu Chunniang wondering how it had obtained it.

• Huo Chunyan told Xu Chunniang about the Azure Cloud Ranking and asked whether spirit beasts had won three matches in the Five Sects Grand Competition.
• After Huo Chunyan left, Xu Chunniang decided to use one of her remaining opportunities at the Dragon Transformation Pool to raise her cultivation.
• Xu Chunniang brought Little Orange and Little White into the Dragon Transformation Pool, where both spirit beasts enjoyed the dense spiritual energy and swam in the pool.
• Little Orange woke Xu Chunniang and showed her a dull stone that she recognized as a rare Spirit Transformation Stone.
• Xu Chunniang realized the stone explained the Dragon Transformation Pool’s dense spiritual energy and wondered how Little Orange had found it despite the pool’s restrictions.

Xu Chunniang discovered that Little Orange could pass through a deadly restriction to reach Spirit Transformation Stones, then continued cultivating in the Dragon Transformation Pool. Before their time there ended, she reached Foundation Establishment third layer, Little Orange reached the fourth layer, and Little White broke through to Foundation Establishment.

• Little Orange showed Xu Chunniang a Spirit Transformation Stone and led her to a restricted passage it could cross, though her divine sense was destroyed by the restriction.
• Xu Chunniang learned there were more Spirit Transformation Stones deeper inside, but told Little Orange to return the one it had taken because the stones supported the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• When Xu Chunniang’s jade talisman cracked ahead of schedule, she activated her last talisman and resumed cultivating.
• Xu Chunniang smoothly broke through to Foundation Establishment third layer, while Little Orange had advanced to the fourth layer and Little White reached Qi Refinement Perfection.
• With only a few days left in the pool, Little White successfully broke through to Foundation Establishment as Xu Chunniang and Little Orange watched.

Xu Chunniang watched Little White break through to Foundation Establishment in the Dragon Transformation Pool, then accidentally caused Little Walnut to absorb much of the pool’s spiritual energy into Walnut World. After leaving the pool before her jade talisman shattered, she resolved to tell Uncle-Master Yue and accept responsibility for the damage.

• Xu Chunniang and Little Orange watched Little White cultivate, and three days later Little White broke through to Foundation Establishment.
• Xu Chunniang remarked that she wished she could move the Dragon Transformation Pool’s spiritual energy into Walnut World, and Little Walnut began absorbing the pool’s mist and spiritual liquid.
• Xu Chunniang stopped Little Walnut’s absorption and discovered that it could not release the spiritual energy it had taken in.
• Little White consolidated its cultivation, and Xu Chunniang brought Little White and Little Orange into Walnut World as the jade talisman cracked further.
• Xu Chunniang left the Dragon Transformation Pool before the jade talisman shattered and decided to tell Uncle-Master Yue about the damage.

Xu Chunniang returned from the Dragon Transformation Pool and learned that she had risen on the Azure Cloud Ranking, then reported that her cultivation had caused severe damage to the pool. After the sect offset her rewards and spirit stones against the losses, she was left with a contribution-point debt of one million six hundred twenty thousand.

• Xu Chunniang collected her yearly allowance from Senior Brother Ji and learned that no news had yet returned from the front lines, while she ranked two hundred twentieth on the Azure Cloud Ranking.
• Xu Chunniang went to the Main Peak after receiving a summons from Yue Lingzheng, who initially intended to reward her for her contributions.
• Xu Chunniang asked Yue Lingzheng to listen to her voice transmission and admitted that her cultivation had caused the Dragon Transformation Pool's water level and spirit mist to diminish.
• Yue Lingzheng calculated the pool's losses at three million four hundred thousand contribution points and secured a waiver of seven hundred thousand.
• Yue Lingzheng applied Xu Chunniang's five hundred thousand contribution points in rewards and accepted eight hundred forty thousand spirit stones toward her debt.
• Xu Chunniang checked her Disciple Token and found that she owed one million six hundred twenty thousand contribution points.

Xu Chunniang demonstrated her improved cultivation techniques to Yue Lingzheng, who recognized that her ability came from the rare Spiritual Resonance Physique and could not benefit other disciples. She then presented Pearl Rice, earning ten thousand contribution points while the sect arranged to test its yield.

• Xu Chunniang told Yue Lingzheng about three techniques she had improved and demonstrated the Spiritual Dew Technique in his medicinal field.
• Yue Lingzheng was astonished by the spiritual dew and explained that Xu Chunniang could alter techniques because she possessed the rare Spiritual Resonance Physique.
• Yue Lingzheng told Xu Chunniang that her improved techniques were usable only by her, so she could not exchange them for contribution points for the sect.
• Xu Chunniang presented Pearl Rice and explained that she had developed it to grow in a Grade One Low-grade spirit field.
• Yue Lingzheng granted Xu Chunniang ten thousand contribution points and arranged for disciples to test the Pearl Rice before deciding on further rewards.

Burdened by 1.61 million contribution points of debt, Xu Chunniang considered how to earn money by growing spiritual plants in Walnut World. She discovered Little Walnut could absorb spiritual energy from the outside world, but Walnut World was too fragile to hold more than cave-abode-level spiritual energy, so she went to buy seeds.

• Xu Chunniang visited Walnut World, where Little White repeatedly challenged Little Orange and lost, and she encouraged Little White to learn to dodge.
• After reflecting on the sect's generosity and Walnut World's improved environment, Xu Chunniang confirmed that Little Walnut could absorb spiritual energy from outside.
• Xu Chunniang tested Little Walnut's ability in her cave abode, then took it to the back mountains so it could absorb spiritual energy without affecting the sect.
• After a day or two, Xu Chunniang found Walnut World's spiritual energy had nearly reached its limit, and Little Walnut showed that the small world could not contain more than cave-abode-level energy.
• Xu Chunniang decided to reclaim spirit fields and went to the Treasure Pavilion to buy spiritual plant seeds, where Qi Refinement disciples recognized her as Martial Aunt Xu.