Chapter Summaries

Liu Erlong convinced the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to support the rescue of Su Biluo, Zhuge Lan’s friend, and the clan agreed to send ten experts. Ning Rongrong presented the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s reconnaissance and attack plan, then returned to report the alliance to Ning Fengzhi.

• Liu Erlong argued that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan owed Zhuge Lan a debt and should join the rescue despite the danger from Spirit Hall.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan decided to send ten experts, with Yu Kan Ye asking that they avoid reckless risks.
• Ning Rongrong outlined a plan to send stealth specialists to scout Spirit Hall before coordinating attacks from several directions.
• Liu Erlong and Ning Rongrong agreed that their forces would cooperate and support one another if danger arose.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had joined, and she promised to stay in contact with Yu Kan Ye.

Ning Rongrong sought an alliance with the Facing Heaven Sect to help rescue Su Biluo from Spirit Hall, but Sect Master Zhou Yan and the elders refused to risk war. The meeting ended with Zhou Yan rejecting her appeal and standing by the sect’s neutrality.

• Ning Rongrong decided to approach the Facing Heaven Sect after the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan agreed to help.
• Ning Rongrong arrived at the sect and asked to meet Sect Master Zhou Yan about an urgent matter.
• Ning Rongrong asked Zhou Yan and the elders to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s rescue effort for Su Biluo and oppose Spirit Hall.
• Zhou Yan and the elders warned that joining the rescue could provoke Spirit Hall and endanger their sect.
• Ning Rongrong argued that other sects were willing to fight and appealed to the Facing Heaven Sect’s reputation for justice.
• Zhou Yan rejected Ning Rongrong’s attempt to pressure the sect and said its decision would not change.

After Facing Heaven Sect refused to join the rescue operation, Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect feeling guilty and discouraged. Ning Fengzhi and the Elders comforted her and searched their connections for allies, but as night fell, Ning Fengzhi stopped her from exhausting herself and told her to rest.

• Sect Master Zhou Yan firmly rejected Ning Rongrong's request for Facing Heaven Sect to help rescue Su Biluo.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi and the Elders about the refusal and worried that they lacked allies to help Zhuge Lan and rescue Su Biluo.
• Ning Fengzhi and the Elders reassured Ning Rongrong that the rejection was not her fault and proposed reviewing the sect's resources and old connections.
• Ning Rongrong regained her resolve, and she joined Ning Fengzhi and the Elders in searching records for overlooked allies.
• Ning Fengzhi saw Ning Rongrong reading late into the night, stopped her from continuing, and told her to go rest.

Ning Fengzhi persuaded Ning Rongrong to rest while he and the elders continued searching for clues about Su Biluo. At the Speed Clan’s ruined castle, Bai Chenxiang led the rebuilding effort, reconciled two quarreling clansmen, and worried about Zhuge Lan at Spirit Hall before returning to work.

• Ning Fengzhi convinced Ning Rongrong to rest, then resumed examining the scrolls for clues.
• Bai Chenxiang encouraged the Speed Clan members as they cleared rubble and began rebuilding their home.
• Bai Chenxiang ended a dispute between two clansmen by urging them to support each other, and they apologized and worked together.
• Bai Chenxiang remembered Zhuge Lan and told Elder Jian she wanted to go to Spirit Hall to check on him.
• Elder Jian warned Bai Chenxiang that going to Spirit Hall could endanger her and distract Zhuge Lan, so she prayed for his safety and returned to the reconstruction work.

Bai Chenxiang worked alongside the Speed Clan as they rebuilt their home, then learned that bandits had robbed their supply convoy. She led clan elites to recover the supplies and found the bandits sorting through the stolen goods while the convoy members were held captive.

• Bai Chenxiang refused to rest, encouraging the clan members as they rebuilt, while Clan Chief Bai He praised her dedication and urged her to take care of herself.
• Bai Chenxiang told Clan Chief Bai He that the clan needed more supplies, and he said deliveries from their former merchant partners were expected soon.
• A clan member reported that bandits had robbed the supply convoy and stolen its supplies.
• Bai Chenxiang persuaded Clan Chief Bai He to let her pursue the bandits with a group of clan elites.
• Bai Chenxiang reached the convoy site and saw gray-robed bandits sorting stolen supplies as the convoy members knelt restrained nearby.

Bai Chenxiang and the Speed Clan elites defeated the bandits and recovered most of their supplies. After Bai Chenxiang suspected someone had leaked the transport route, Clan Chief Bai He summoned the elders to investigate a possible traitor.

• Bai Chenxiang led the Speed Clan elites in using their speed to defeat the bandits and force their leader to return the supplies.
• Bai Chenxiang discovered that two large sacks of timber had been burned and brought the remaining supplies back to the Speed Clan.
• Bai Chenxiang reported the incident to Clan Chief Bai He and questioned how the bandits had learned the transport route.
• Clan Chief Bai He summoned the elders to the Conference Hall and announced his suspicion that a traitor was inside the clan.
• An elder asked Clan Chief Bai He in disbelief how a traitor could be among them.

After the Speed Clan recovered its supplies, Bai Chenxiang and the elders discussed how the bandits learned the convoy’s route and suspected a spy within the clan. Bai He improved Bai Chenxiang’s plan to expose the traitor, and the clan began putting it into action.

• Bai Chenxiang questioned how the bandits had learned the convoy’s route, and Bai He suspected someone in the clan had leaked it.
• Elder Jian explained that Bai He had ordered him to arrange the resource purchase, and he had informed only the person in charge of resources before the transport.
• Bai Chenxiang proposed secretly testing the eight transport team members with false treasure information, while the elders warned that a broad investigation could alert the spy or cause a mistaken accusation.
• Bai He suggested dividing the eight members into four pairs and giving each pair a different false treasure location.
• Bai Chenxiang praised Bai He’s improved plan, and the clan members immediately began carrying it out.

Bai Chenxiang and the elders used fake treasure locations to try to expose a spy among the Speed Clan’s transport teams. By morning, two team members had appeared at separate locations, leaving the clan unsure whether one or both were spies.

• The elders split the eight transport team members into pairs and sent each pair different fake treasure-location information, while trusted guards hid nearby.
• Bai Chenxiang and the elders waited in the clan council hall as guards watched the false locations.
• A transport team member appeared near the first location and cautiously surveyed the area, prompting the elders to keep observing rather than arrest him.
• A member of a different team appeared near the second location, and Bai Chenxiang warned that questioning either man immediately could give a spy an excuse to explain his presence.
• After watching through the night, Elder Jian reported that two of the four pairs had sent a member to a false location, while the other pairs showed no activity.
• Bai Chenxiang outlined three possibilities: either man could be the spy, or both could be spies.

Bai Chenxiang investigated one of the suspected spies by questioning an elderly neighbor, who described a mysterious meeting and the suspect’s visits to a nearby mountain. Bai Chenxiang led her team toward the mountain to search for evidence.

• Bai Chenxiang organized an elite investigation team and divided it into two groups to investigate the suspects while remaining discreet.
• Bai Chenxiang helped an old woman carry rice seedlings and asked about the young man living nearby.
• The old woman said the young man seemed honest, usually went alone, and had once spoken with a black-clad person wearing a hat that hid their face.
• The old woman added that the young man sometimes walked in the mountain behind the village.
• Bai Chenxiang and her team concluded that the stranger might be connected to the suspect and decided to search the mountain for clues.

Bai Chenxiang and her group searched the mountain for clues about their only suspect, but two members were caught in a concealed net trap. Bai Chenxiang spotted Blue Erosion Grass and proposed using its corrosive juice to break the net, leaving the group poised to try her idea.

• Bai Chenxiang received a message confirming that the suspected clansman had gone to the treasure site because of his family's greed, leaving him as their only suspect.
• Bai Chenxiang led her group up the mountain to investigate the suspect and find a breakthrough.
• The old grandmother told her husband that she had met Bai Chenxiang and invited her to dinner, and he recognized Bai Chenxiang as Clan Leader Bai He's daughter.
• Two members of Bai Chenxiang's group stepped on a concealed trap, and a sturdy net sprang up to suspend them.
• A team member's Soul Power attacks failed to break the net, so Bai Chenxiang looked for another solution.
• Bai Chenxiang recognized nearby Blue Erosion Grass and explained that its juice might corrode the net.

Bai Chenxiang and the Speed Clan members escaped a trap using Blue Erosion Grass and continued searching the mountain for the person who had set the traps. Following fresh footprints and a strange sound, they found an elderly hunter in a cave, who said he had stayed on the mountain because of recent strange events.

• Bai Chenxiang used Blue Erosion Grass to corrode the net trap and free the trapped members.
• Bai Chenxiang led the Speed Clan members onward, warning them to test suspicious areas as they avoided several more traps.
• Bai Chenxiang found fresh footprints, and the group followed them toward a strange sound.
• Bai Chenxiang and the members entered a cave and found an elderly hunter holding a hunting pitchfork.
• The elderly hunter said strange things had happened on the mountain and he had been too afraid to leave, so Bai Chenxiang asked him what he meant.

Bai Chenxiang and the Speed Clan members investigated the old hunter’s report of a blue-robed intruder and followed his trail into the Mountain Cave. They found the traitor’s plans and contact methods, then hurried back to the Speed Clan’s camp with the evidence.

• The old hunter told Bai Chenxiang that he had seen two suspicious people, including a fast-moving person in a blue robe bearing the Speed Clan’s emblem.
• Bai Chenxiang persuaded the wary hunter that the group was investigating a Speed Clan traitor, and he pointed them deeper into the Mountain Cave.
• Bai Chenxiang led the team cautiously into the cave, where they found a package beside glowing stones.
• Bai Chenxiang opened the package and identified diagrams and a letter containing the traitor’s action plans and contact methods.
• The team took the evidence and hurried toward the Speed Clan’s camp to deliver it to Clan Chief Bai He.

Bai Chenxiang led the Speed Clan team through a Boar Pack ambush and used a narrow valley to defeat the beasts. Suspecting the spy knew their whereabouts, she returned with the evidence and arrived at Clan Chief Bai He's council hall.

• Bai Chenxiang warned the team that a spy might be targeting the Speed Clan's abilities.
• Bai Chenxiang and her team fought a pack of more than twenty thousand-year soul beast boars, but their attacks initially had little effect.
• Bai Chenxiang led the boars into a narrow valley, where the team attacked their eyes and bellies until the pack was defeated.
• Bai Chenxiang warned that the boars' appearance and their passage through traps suggested the spy knew the team's whereabouts.
• Bai Chenxiang and the team returned to the Speed Clan's castle carrying the evidence and went to see Clan Chief Bai He.

Bai Chenxiang returned to Clan Chief Bai He with coded drawings and a letter that could prove a spy was operating within the Speed Clan. Bai He arranged a discreet investigation through the Reconnaissance Department and told Chenxiang to withdraw and recover, despite her protests.

• Bai Chenxiang presented Bai He with coded drawings and a letter found in a Mountain Cave, then described the Thousand-Year Soul Beast Boar Pack encounter.
• Bai He sent the evidence to the Reconnaissance Department for deciphering and ordered two clansmen to secretly obtain the suspected mole’s records from the Resource Transportation Team.
• The clansmen retrieved the file, and Bai He learned that the suspected mole held an important position in the Resource Transportation Team.
• Bai Chenxiang suggested inspecting the entire Resource Transportation Team, but Bai He left the investigation to the experienced Reconnaissance Department and urged her to rest.
• Bai Chenxiang protested that she knew the case well, but Bai He warned that pursuing the mole could endanger her and affect her judgment.

Bai Chenxiang agreed to focus on hosting the Speed Clan’s Extreme Challenge Competition finals and leave the traitor investigation to the Reconnaissance Department. On her way home, she found two young clansmen arguing over whether Sha Zhuge could surpass Lu Lingfeng, and stepped in as the quarrel nearly turned into a fight.

• Clan Chief Bai He reminded Bai Chenxiang that she had to oversee the Extreme Challenge Competition finals, and she agreed to follow his arrangements.
• Bai Chenxiang left her father’s room, still troubled about the traitor but preparing to host the finals.
• Bai Chenxiang heard two young clansmen arguing over Sha Zhuge’s achievements and Lu Lingfeng’s standing in the Speed Clan.
• The thin clansman praised Sha Zhuge while the burly clansman insisted Lu Lingfeng was superior, and their argument drew a crowd.
• Bai Chenxiang hurried over and asked the two clansmen why they were getting more worked up.

Bai Chenxiang stopped two clansmen from arguing and then learned that Sha Zhuge was actually Tang San, who had infiltrated the Speed Clan to target Zhuge Lan. Zhuge Lan left her with a mysterious cotton ball to use against Tang San, and she accidentally triggered another burst of pain in him.

• Bai Chenxiang persuaded the burly young man and the tall, thin man to stop arguing and support both Sha Zhuge and Lu Lingfeng.
• Zhuge Lan told Bai Chenxiang that Sha Zhuge was Tang San, who had disguised himself and infiltrated the clan to seek revenge.
• Bai Chenxiang and Zhuge Lan realized that the name Sha Zhuge sounded like “Kill Zhuge” and laughed about Tang San’s provocation.
• Zhuge Lan gave Bai Chenxiang the cotton ball and told her to squeeze or hit it if Tang San reacted violently after Zhuge Lan left.
• Bai Chenxiang squeezed the ball, and Tang San suddenly felt sharp pain across his face while washing it.

Bai Chenxiang told Pei Xijun that Sha Zhuge was Tang San in disguise and worried that he might cause trouble if he did not leave before the finals. Pei Xijun reassured her and promised to help keep an eye on him, then began telling Bai Chenxiang about an interesting outing with Lu Lingfeng.

• Pei Xijun visited Bai Chenxiang and asked why she was worried about the ball she was holding.
• Bai Chenxiang revealed that Sha Zhuge was Tang San in disguise and explained Zhuge Lan's plan to make him leave on the day of the finals.
• Pei Xijun struck the ball, and Tang San was suddenly blasted into the lake by an unexplained punch.
• Bai Chenxiang told Pei Xijun that no one else in the clan knew Tang San's identity and worried he might refuse to leave or act violently.
• Pei Xijun comforted Bai Chenxiang and said she and Lu Lingfeng would watch Tang San closely.
• Pei Xijun told Bai Chenxiang that she had been studying herbs and had experienced something interesting while out with Lu Lingfeng.

Pei Xijun and Lu Lingfeng found a lost boy named Long Long while strolling through the castle garden and helped him reunite with his family. The chapter ended with Long Long apologizing to his parents after his father tried to strike him.

• Pei Xijun and Lu Lingfeng encountered Long Long, who had sneaked away from home and become lost in the garden.
• Pei Xijun and Lu Lingfeng searched for Long Long's family, asking a gardener and people at the snack street for help.
• Pei Xijun bought Long Long strawberry candy and cake while Lu Lingfeng continued asking passersby about his family.
• Pei Xijun and Lu Lingfeng found Long Long's family, and his worried mother hugged him while his father raised a hand to hit him.
• Pei Xijun and Lu Lingfeng stopped Long Long's father, and Long Long apologized and promised not to run away again.

After Pei Xijun comforted Bai Chenxiang about Zhuge Lan’s absence, Bai Chenxiang resolved to focus on the clan and the competition. She and Pei Xijun headed to the square, where Bai Chenxiang planned to announce that Zhuge Lan had left.

• Pei Xijun told Bai Chenxiang about a child named Long Long who had jokingly said he would marry her, making Lu Lingfeng jealous.
• Bai Chenxiang admitted that she missed Zhuge Lan and feared for his safety as he faced Spirit Hall alone.
• Pei Xijun reassured Bai Chenxiang that Zhuge Lan would return, and Bai Chenxiang resolved to cultivate, help rebuild the clan, and host the Extreme Challenge Competition.
• A clan member summoned Bai Chenxiang to announce the finals’ rules, and she decided to tell the crowd that Zhuge Lan had left, with Pei Xijun and Lu Lingfeng there to support her.
• Bai Chenxiang and Pei Xijun walked together toward the square, drawing admiring stares from clan members.

Bai Chenxiang announced the finals rules, introduced the four contestants, and revealed that Zhuge Lan had left the Speed Clan after entrusting her with the promised treasure. Tang San flew into a rage and seized Bai Chenxiang by the collar.

• Bai Chenxiang announced that the finals would be one-on-one duels with separate Men's Group and Women's Group champions.
• Bai Chenxiang invited A Li and Pei Xijun onto the stage as the Women's Group finalists, then introduced Sha Zhuge and Lu Lingfeng as the Men's Group finalists.
• Bai Chenxiang announced generous Gold Soul Coins and a champion's trophy as rewards, while Tang San watched for news of Zhuge Lan.
• Bai Chenxiang said Zhuge Lan had left the Speed Clan three days earlier and entrusted her with the promised treasure.
• Tang San flashed to Bai Chenxiang and seized her by the collar in anger.