Chapter Summaries

Xiao Zhan and Wutan City’s other faction leaders prepared to raise funds for the Mittel Auction House’s grand auction. After Xiao Yan left the auction house disguised as an old man, Yao Chen noticed the Bright Flower in the catalog and became eager to attend.

• Xiao Zhan ordered the Xiao Family elders to cut expenses, gather liquid funds, and sell unneeded possessions so they could compete at the auction.
• Ya Fei gave the catalog to the Black Robe Man and invited him to attend the auction next month.
• Xiao Yan removed his robe in an empty alley and discussed the auction catalog with Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan pointed out the valuable auction items, and Yao Chen changed his mind and agreed they would attend.
• Yao Chen focused on the Bright Flower, reasoning that more might be available in Wutan City and could restore his power.

Xiao Bai recruited Mittel Teng Shan and Ya Fei into the Holy Light Church while arranging to meet the mysterious Black Robe Man. The man entered Xiao Bai’s room and recognized him as the youth who had briefly returned to the Xiao Family.

• Ya Fei told Xiao Bai that the auction of Raging Lion's Roar, the Bright Flower, and the Overlord Saber was set for the beginning of next month, and that the Black Robe Man wanted to auction second-tier Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid.
• Xiao Bai asked Ya Fei to watch the Black Robe Man and follow his instructions.
• Teng Shan arrived at the Mittel Auction House, confronted Xiao Bai over Hai Bodong, and became one of Xiao Bai's workers after Xiao Bai reasoned with him.
• Xiao Bai gave Teng Shan and Ya Fei the Holy Light Art, appointed Ya Fei Minister of Commerce of the Holy Light Church, and told Xiao Qing and Xiao Zhao to arrange for the technique to be leaked discreetly.
• Ya Fei brought the Black Robe Man to meet Xiao Bai, then left him to enter the room alone.
• The Black Robe Man entered, saw Xiao Bai in white, and recognized him as the youth who had briefly returned to the Xiao Family.

Xiao Bai negotiated with the disguised Xiao Yan and Yao Chen for a Calamity Breaking Pill in exchange for rare Bright Flowers. After they left, Xiao Bai hoped the pill would help the Holy Light Church gain a Dou Emperor, while Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan against provoking Xiao Bai and his companion.

• Xiao Bai noticed the Black Robe Man's reaction and realized he was Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan and Yao Chen decided to keep their identities hidden.
• Xiao Bai refused to trade higher-grade Bright Flowers for an uncertain favor until Yao Chen tried to leave, then offered a Calamity Breaking Pill formula as a test of his abilities.
• Yao Chen agreed to refine the pill through a friend for one sixth-grade Bright Flower and two fifth-grade Bright Flowers, and Xiao Bai paid a ten-thousand-Gold-Coin deposit.
• Xiao Yan left with the pill's ingredients, and Xiao Bai hoped the deal would help the Holy Light Church gain a Dou Emperor expert.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that Xiao Bai was a Dou Wang and his companion was likely a five- or six-star Dou Ling, startling Xiao Yan.

After trading a Calamity Breaking Pill for three light-bearing flowers, Xiao Bai discovered that Yao Chen had given him a low-quality pill and enhanced it to perfect quality. He gave it to Hai Bodong to restore his strength, then prepared to see how much his items would earn at the auction.

• Xiao Bai planned the Holy Light Church’s gradual expansion while waiting for the auction.
• The Black Robe Man exchanged a Calamity Breaking Pill for three flowers, and Xiao Bai confirmed the pill’s identity with his enhancement panel.
• Xiao Bai found that Yao Chen’s pill had only a 50% success rate and secretly vowed to repay him for the slight.
• Xiao Bai spent one million Energy Points to enhance the pill to its grade’s limit and raise its success rate to 100%.
• Xiao Bai gave the enhanced pill to Hai Bodong, who left to recover his strength, while the Cheat assured Xiao Bai that Hai Bodong would obey him.
• Xiao Bai turned his attention to the auction and went to see how much his items could earn.

Xiao Bai watched the auction conclude, where the Xiao Family secured Raging Lion's Roar and Jia Lie Bi bought the Wind Scroll Art after being manipulated into paying a steep price. Ya Fei later visited Xiao Bai, and her sharp business sense led him to consider putting her talents to use in future ventures.

• Xiao Bai watched his Bright Flower sell for 90,000 Gold Coins before Ya Fei opened the bidding on Raging Lion's Roar.
• Jia Lie Bi bid 300,000 Gold Coins for Raging Lion's Roar, but Xiao Zhan eventually won it for 500,000 Gold Coins.
• Jia Lie Bi obtained the Wind Scroll Art for 550,000 Gold Coins after Xiao Bai manipulated him, then left angrily and threatened Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Bai returned to his room to await his share of the auction proceeds and news about Hai Bodong.
• Ya Fei visited Xiao Bai and discussed the value of the old house he had given to Xiao Yuan, prompting Xiao Bai to consider future real estate ventures and ways to use Ya Fei's business talent.

Xiao Bai entrusted Ya Fei with the Church's commercial division and learned that Hai Bodong had broken his seal and nearly reached Dou Zong. He then gathered information about Wutan City's factions from Xiao Yuan as he prepared for his next move.

• Xiao Bai praised Ya Fei and put the Church's commercial division under her care, asking her to call him Xiao Bai instead of Your Holiness.
• Hai Bodong arrived and told Xiao Bai and Ya Fei that he had broken his seal, regained his strength, and advanced to the threshold of Dou Zong.
• After Ya Fei left, Xiao Bai told Hai Bodong to stabilize and master his strength for Xiao Bai's plans.
• Xiao Bai later walked through the streets with Xiao Yuan and asked him about Wutan City's factions, headquarters, and strength.
• Xiao Bai gave Xiao Yuan an Azure Spirit Pill and promised they would go to Jia Nan Academy together.

Xiao Bai sent Hai Bodong to collect resources from Wutan City's major families while warning him not to provoke the Xiao Family or approach Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er. As resources flowed into Xiao Bai's hands and his energy points accumulated, he looked forward to the opponents he had arranged for Hai Bodong.

• Xiao Bai had Xiao Yuan guide him around Wutan City so he could memorize the locations of its major powers.
• Xiao Bai ordered Hai Bodong to collect resources from the other families, especially the Jia Lie Family and the Oba Family, but to leave the Xiao Family alone.
• Xiao Bai warned Hai Bodong to avoid Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er or flee if he encountered either of them, and Hai Bodong agreed.
• After leaving, Hai Bodong remained wary of Xiao Bai and considered looking into Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er after completing his orders.
• Xiao Bai's forces in Desert City and Qingshan Town gathered resources for him, while his Heaven and Earth Forging Furnace converted them into energy points with help from the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Bai began deliberately cultivating while Hai Bodong went to the Jia Lie Family to carry out Xiao Bai’s task. Hai Bodong intimidated Jia Lie Bi into agreeing to hand over the family’s wealth, leaving Jia Lie Bi furious with Xiao Yan for apparently sending the intruder.

• Xiao Bai decided to cultivate and sped up the Nine Yang Radiant Heaven Art by feeding Dou Qi into it.
• Hai Bodong entered the Jia Lie Family and sensed its leaders gathered for a meeting about an Alchemist arriving the next day.
• Jia Lie Bi told the gathered family members to prepare gifts and behave properly when the Alchemist arrived.
• Hai Bodong burst into the meeting, defeated Jia Lie Bi with one attack, and pressured the Jia Lie Family’s leaders into submission.
• Jia Lie Bi blamed Xiao Yan in his thoughts after Hai Bodong mentioned hearing from Xiao Yanzi that the Jia Lie Family was Wutan City’s greatest force.
• Jia Lie Bi agreed to fetch Hai Bodong’s property under the threat of his overwhelming pressure.

Hai Bodong collected resources from Wutan City's major factions on the Pope's orders, then secretly entered the Xiao Family estate to investigate it. He released his aura above the estate, alerting a hidden black-robed figure and waking Xiao Yan, whom Yao Chen warned that a powerhouse was overhead.

• Hai Bodong pressured Jia Lie Bi into handing over the Jia Lie Family's resources, then threatened the family if Jia Lie Bi had lied.
• Jia Lie Bi blamed the Xiao Family and Xiao Yan for his misfortune, then ordered his clan to prepare for tomorrow and treat Alchemist Liu Xi well.
• Hai Bodong visited the Oba Family and other factions, collected their resources, and handed everything over to Xiao Bai.
• Hai Bodong went to the Xiao Family estate at midnight and probed the grounds from above with his aura and soul perception.
• A hidden black-robed figure sensed Hai Bodong and vanished into the darkness, while Yao Chen woke Xiao Yan and told him a powerhouse was overhead.

Hai Bodong’s aura disturbed the Xiao Family residence and drew out Ling Ying, Xiao Xun'er’s hidden guard, and another black-robed powerhouse. Ling Ying attacked Hai Bodong, while the newcomer’s icy flames prevented the fight from harming the Xiao Family; the battle continued.

• Hai Bodong sensed a hidden presence, and Ling Ying revealed himself and ordered him to leave the Xiao Family.
• Hai Bodong refused to move the fight away from the residence, and another black-robed man appeared and challenged him about his purpose.
• Ling Ying vanished and attacked Hai Bodong from behind with a black vine, shattering Hai Bodong’s ice wall.
• The other black-robed man used cold white flames to dissolve the falling ice fragments before they could strike the Xiao Family.
• Ling Ying launched Dark Tide Surge at Hai Bodong, who countered with Extreme Ice Bloom.

Hai Bodong’s Extreme Ice Bloom nearly overwhelmed Ling Ying, but Xiao Yan and Yao Chen intervened before their battle could endanger the Xiao Family. The fighters stopped and left together, while Xiao Bai suddenly lost his composure inside the Mittel Auction House.

• Hai Bodong used Extreme Ice Bloom to freeze Ling Ying’s dark tide, then sent an exploding ice mass and hidden petals at him.
• Ling Ying raised a dark barrier and prepared Great Darkness after Hai Bodong’s attack broke through his defense.
• Xiao Yan called on Yao Chen to stop the fight, and Yao Chen warned Hai Bodong and Ling Ying that the people below could not withstand their techniques.
• Hai Bodong and Ling Ying stopped attacking, though they remained wary of each other.
• Yao Chen used White Flame to erase traces of the battle, and he, Xiao Yan, Hai Bodong, and Ling Ying flew away together.
• Inside the Mittel Auction House, Xiao Bai suddenly lost his composure.

After learning that the Heavenly Dao had targeted him as an unregistered Cheat, Xiao Bai followed Cheat Bro’s instructions and hid in a coffin beneath his parents’ grave to undergo a dangerous process. The chapter ended as he gave Cheat Bro authorization to begin.

• Xiao Bai learned that the Heavenly Dao was pursuing him and asked Cheat Bro how to survive.
• Xiao Bai fled the Mittel Auction House and took Gold Coins and Magic Crystals from the Xiao Family treasure vault amid the family’s chaos.
• Xiao Bai went to the back mountain, dug out his parents’ burial place, and prepared a coffin as his hiding spot.
• Xiao Bai sealed himself inside the coffin and gave Cheat Bro permission to begin.

While hiding in a coffin, Xiao Bai learned that the Programmer’s threat left him facing death or a complete reset, and he chose to live. The formatting erased his strength, and he discovered that the Cheat had also removed his cultivation enhancement function and apparently used his saved points for an update.

• Xiao Bai waited in the coffin and argued with Cheat Bro after it announced that firewall construction was complete.
• Cheat Bro started formatting Xiao Bai and gave him a choice between starting over and facing deletion, so Xiao Bai chose to live.
• Formatting succeeded, stripping Xiao Bai of his battle qi and leaving him unable to enhance his cultivation.
• When Xiao Bai called for the Cheat, it struck him with five bolts of purple lightning and said the enhancement function could no longer be used.
• Xiao Bai checked his Panel, saw his Strength and Enhancement Points listed as zero, and accused the Cheat of embezzling his saved points for its update.

Xiao Bai ate the Cheat’s Talent Date and gained the ability to absorb Light Dou Qi, but after cultivating to Stage Three of Dou Qi, he remained trapped inside his sturdy coffin. He resumed cultivating so he could reach Stage Five and escape before he ran out of time.

• Xiao Bai opened the Cheat’s compensation gift and read that the date inside could improve his talent.
• Xiao Bai ate the Talent Date, and Light Dou Qi gathered around him and entered his body.
• Xiao Bai cultivated for six hours and reached Stage Three of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Bai struck the coffin lid but could not break it, so he decided to keep cultivating until Stage Five.
• Xiao Bai resolved never to order from the coffin maker again and relied on scientists’ claims that he could survive several days without food or water.

After surviving underground and reaching Stage Five of Dou Qi, Xiao Bai buried his parents’ ashes and confirmed that Hai Bodong and the others had survived the Cheat’s formatting. Exhausted and hungry, he made his way to the Mittel Auction House, where its guards challenged him.

• Xiao Bai broke through the ceiling of the small room and emerged into the night after reaching Stage Five of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Bai placed his parents’ ashes in the coffin, filled in the grave by hand, and left a stone tablet beside it.
• Xiao Bai asked Brother Cheat whether Hai Bodong and the others remained under his control, and learned that they had been preserved.
• Xiao Bai lamented that the antivirus had taken his Dou Wang strength and restricted some of his functions, then headed toward the Mittel Auction House.
• The guards at the Mittel Auction House heard Xiao Bai approaching and called out for him to leave.

After collapsing on his return to the Mittel Auction House, Xiao Bai woke up, ate porridge, and began considering how to grow stronger. He left the chapter planning a new direction for himself and telling Hai Bodong to stop calling him the Pope.

• Xiao Bai returned to the Mittel Auction House, where he collapsed and was carried to his room.
• Xiao Bai woke up hungry, found a bowl of porridge, and ate it before deciding to cultivate.
• Xiao Bai checked his Personal Panel, learned that his Dou Techniques had not survived formatting, and concluded that science and technology should guide his future.
• A young woman from the Mittel Auction House brought care and food for Xiao Bai, then Hai Bodong and Ya Fei came to see him.
• Xiao Bai told Hai Bodong that the Pope title and the Holy Light Church were unlucky and asked to be called Young Master Xiao instead.
• Ya Fei asked Xiao Bai how he was feeling, and he told her he had mostly recovered.

Xiao Bai explained his plan to use technology to change the world and asked Ya Fei to help find people who could research it. After Hai Bodong left for the Mo Family in Yan City, Xiao Bai asked Ya Fei to find a group of Weapon Refiners.

• Hai Bodong grew furious over Xiao Bai's weakened cultivation, but Xiao Bai ordered him to calm down.
• Xiao Bai explained science and technology to Ya Fei and Hai Bodong, who became curious about their potential.
• Ya Fei said finding people willing to conduct research would be difficult, then directed Hai Bodong to the Mo Family in Yan City.
• Xiao Bai asked Ya Fei whether Weapon Refiners existed, and she explained how they differed from Alchemists.
• Xiao Bai told Ya Fei to find him a group of Weapon Refiners.

Xiao Bai cultivated until he reached the sixth stage of Dou Qi, then met the Weapon Refiners Ya Fei had recruited. He showed them a blueprint for a special weapon called a pistol.

• Xiao Bai stayed in his room to cultivate, drawing Light Dou Qi into his body and strengthening his meridians and physical form.
• Ya Fei returned after finding several Weapon Refiners willing to take the job and offered to bring them to Xiao Bai.
• Xiao Bai met two young Weapon Refiners and a middle-aged Weapon Refiner in a room at the Mittel Auction House.
• Xiao Bai told the Weapon Refiners he wanted them to forge a gun, and the two young men laughed at the idea.
• Xiao Bai handed them a blueprint for the weapon, which he called a pistol.

Xiao Bai persuaded three Weapon Refiners to forge a pistol despite their objections, then gave them blueprints for two more firearms. The men agreed to make all three and asked to see the weapons’ power once they were finished.

• The three Weapon Refiners rejected Xiao Bai’s pistol blueprint as an insult and prepared to leave.
• Xiao Bai challenged their judgment and explained that they had never seen or tested the weapon.
• Xiao Bai promised payment and an extra reward if the men forged the pistol, and they agreed.
• Xiao Bai drew blueprints for a Submachine Gun and a Sniper Rifle and handed them to the middle-aged Weapon Refiner.
• The middle-aged man asked to witness the weapons’ power after they were forged, and Xiao Bai agreed.

Xiao Bai’s three Weapon Refiners finished the firearm models, and he used his Cheat to turn them into working weapons powered by Dou Qi. He prepared to demonstrate the pistol, Submachine Gun, and Sniper Rifle to the Weapon Refiners in the Mittel Auction House’s rear garden.

• Xiao Bai reassured Ya Fei that he would process the Weapon Refiners’ models himself and invited them to witness the weapons’ power.
• After three quiet days, an attendant told Xiao Bai that the three Weapon Refiners had finished the models and were waiting downstairs.
• The Weapon Refiners unveiled a pistol, a Submachine Gun, and a Sniper Rifle, then urged Xiao Bai to begin the test.
• Xiao Bai took the firearms to his room and spent eighty thousand Gold Coins using his Cheat to make them functional, with Bullet Conversion Arrays that turned Dou Qi into bullets.
• Xiao Bai told the Weapon Refiners to meet him in the rear garden an hour later so he could show them what firearms truly were.