Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan trapped and wounded Bai Ling and Nangong Yuan, then used formations to separate Huang from Bai Ling and attack the divine beast. Hanxu Zi learned of Bai Ling’s ancient treasure and connection to the demonic path, then asked Bai Lan whether she would sell Huang’s inner core.

• Bai Lan prepared the Golden Bell Shield, defensive formations, and a ring of talisman traps, then waited for Bai Ling to arrive.
• Bai Ling rushed to free Nangong Yuan and triggered the traps, leaving both her and Nangong Yuan injured.
• Bai Lan accused Bai Ling of sending a Core Formation cultivator after her and revealed that she knew about Lan Ning and the Space Jade Bracelet.
• Hanxu Zi recognized the bracelet as an ancient spiritual treasure and suspected Bai Ling’s connection to the demonic path as Bai Lan captured her.
• Bai Lan retreated behind her formations with Bai Ling, trapping Huang outside and firing arrows at the divine beast.
• Hanxu Zi told Bai Lan that killing Huang would be her own achievement and asked whether she would sell its inner core.

Bai Lan bargained with Hanxu Zi for a talisman containing one strike of his Nascent Soul power, then used a trap to kill the Phoenix and claim its inner core. She left with the talisman in hand and a Divine Beast core to collect.

• Bai Lan saved her progress and negotiated with Hanxu Zi, trading the Phoenix's inner core for a talisman containing one strike of his power.
• Hanxu Zi gave Bai Lan a water-blue talisman, which she planned to save for a chance to kill True Person Qing Xuan.
• Bai Lan charged the Purple Firmament Seal while the Phoenix's flames damaged her Water Pattern Formation.
• Bai Lan used the Soul Piercer to lure the Phoenix beneath the fully charged Purple Firmament Seal.
• Bai Lan dropped the seal and killed the Phoenix.

Bai Lan killed Bai Ling’s divine beast, took her belongings, and began stealing other cultivators’ tokens to secure first place in the competition. After three days, she led the rankings with twenty-seven tokens, while the elders outside Coiled Dragon Canyon realized she was behind the sudden losses.

• Bai Lan drained the phoenix’s blood, took its inner core, and seized Bai Ling’s and Nangong Yuan’s Storage Bags.
• Hanxu Zi scolded Bai Lan for targeting fellow disciples instead of demon beasts, and she set out to earn points.
• Bai Lan used concealment and the Spirit Control Technique to steal a Carefree Sect cultivator’s token after she killed an Ironclad Rhinoceros.
• Over three days, Bai Lan stole more than twenty tokens, and the victims began searching Coiled Dragon Canyon for her.
• The elders saw Bai Lan leading the rankings with twenty-seven stolen tokens, and True Lord Lingxiao suspected she had taken Bai Ling’s token.

Bai Lan continued seizing tokens across Coiled Dragon Canyon while Hanxu Zi helped her locate contestants and warned her about leaving the sect after the competition. After Dawn supplied Bai Lan with pills and left the remaining contestants to rely on her, Bai Lan stole two more tokens from a Joyous Union Sect cultivator, leaving that cultivator to realize her Storage Bag had vanished too.

• Bai Lan joked with Hanxu Zi about needing the Azure Sect to protect her reputation, then persuaded him to help find contestants who still had tokens.
• Hanxu Zi recalled a previous Five Spirit Roots cultivator who had practiced the Chaos Yin Yang Art but died before forming a Golden Core, and he warned Bai Lan not to die while traveling outside the sect.
• Hanxu Zi directed Bai Lan toward two battling cultivators, and she hid nearby until the Joyous Union Sect cultivator defeated the Golden Qi Sect cultivator.
• Dawn met Bai Lan, praised her for making the competition easier for the Azure Origin Sect, and gave her several bottles of spirit-replenishing pills before leaving.
• Bai Lan used the Spirit Control Technique to steal both tokens from the Joyous Union Sect cultivator just after she took the Golden Qi Sect cultivator's token.
• The Joyous Union Sect cultivator discovered that her Storage Bag was gone too, while the Golden Qi Sect cultivator credited True Lord Yunyang for his own bag being spared.

With five days left in the Five Sects Grand Competition, Bai Lan tracked down the last two tokens and ended the contest early. She left the Blazing Fire Sect disciples behind in the cave and headed out of Coiled Dragon Canyon.

• Bai Lan had collected forty tokens and twelve Storage Bags, prompting other sects’ cultivators to target Azure Origin Sect disciples in frustration.
• Two Blazing Fire Sect disciples hid in a cave and discussed avoiding Bai Lan, reaching the top ten, and sharing a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Bai Lan revealed herself, showing the pair that she had already stolen their Storage Bags.
• The Blazing Fire Sect disciples attacked, but Bai Lan evaded them with Phantom Step and disappeared under her Hidden Spirit Robe.
• Bai Lan took their tokens, transferred their points, and announced that she had collected all forty-two tokens and ended the competition.
• Bai Lan returned the Storage Bags and left for the outside of Coiled Dragon Canyon, leaving the two disciples staring at each other.

The Five Sects Grand Competition ended with eight Azure Sect disciples in the top ten, and the other sects learned that Bai Lan had spared their belongings while emptying the Joyous Union Sect cultivators’ Storage Bags. Bai Lan accepted offers of duels for a fee, while the other sects mocked the Joyous Union Sect.

• The elders saw that Azure Sect disciples dominated the rankings and decided to award ninth and tenth place to the cultivators who had taken Bai Ling and Nangong Yuan’s identity tokens.
• Bai Lan emerged unharmed, and True Lord Lingxiao checked on her before disciples from other sects demanded duels.
• Bai Lan agreed to fight challengers for a starting price of six thousand Spirit Stones.
• A Joyous Union Sect cultivator accused Bai Lan of taking his Storage Bag, revealing that she had taken the Joyous Union Sect’s bags but left the other sects’ belongings alone.
• The other sects laughed at the Joyous Union Sect cultivators for failing to protect their Storage Bags.

Bai Lan faced accusations of stealing during the competition, but the other sects’ disciples defended her as the leaders disputed the rankings and prizes. The Azure Origin Sect’s disciples claimed all eight awarded places, while ninth and tenth place were left vacant, and the chapter described the champion’s five treasures.

• A Joyous Union Sect cultivator accused Bai Lan of stealing her hairpin, Storage Bag, and a demonic beast, but Bai Lan denied taking anything beyond tokens.
• Cultivators from the four sects shielded Bai Lan and rejected the Joyous Union Sect’s demand to search her Storage Bag.
• Bai Lan handed True Person Yunlai the tokens of Bai Ling and Nangong Yuan, while an unseen force sealed the two injured disciples’ mouths before they could denounce her.
• True Lord Lingxiao argued with True Persons Yunlai, Zhengyan, and Hegui over the final rankings, but the ninth and tenth places went unawarded.
• The Azure Origin Sect took all eight awarded places in the competition, and the champion’s five rewards were listed: the Azure Bamboo Sword, Heart-Bewitching Bell, Mountain Suppressing Banner, Thunder Fire Beads, and Black Tortoise Ring.

After the Five Sects Grand Competition, Bai Lan planned to leave the Azure Sect rather than face elders competing to take her as a disciple. True Lord Lingxiao and Nan Xianshi gave her powerful protective talismans, and she left with renewed confidence in her plan to kill True Person Qing Xuan.

• Bai Lan favored the Golden Qi Sect's Mountain Suppressing Banner because it could help her rapidly move nearby land and vegetation into the Void Stone, and she planned to take the Joyous Union Sect's abandoned spiritual vein.
• The Azure Sect won the Five Sects Grand Competition, and its Qi Refining disciples gathered around Bai Lan to ask which peak and master she would choose.
• Bai Lan told True Lord Lingxiao she had to leave the sect to train, and he gave her a Core Formation-stage Full Power Strike Talisman despite warning her that enemies were watching her.
• Nan Xianshi stopped Bai Lan and gave her another Core Formation-stage Full Power Strike Talisman, saying she did not want to owe Bai Lan a favor.
• Bai Lan resolved to kill True Person Qing Xuan with her talismans, while Hanxu Zi expressed jealousy over how generously others treated her.

Bai Lan gave Nan Xianshi evidence of Bai Ling’s assassination attempt, then released Gongsun Lian and equipped her to gather opportunities. She sent Gongsun Lian on her mission while making clear that their soul contract kept her under control.

• Bai Lan handed Nan Xianshi evidence that Bai Ling had sent Core Formation stage assassins after her and asked her to reveal it at the right time.
• Bai Lan left the flying ship, confirmed Hanxu Zi was no longer watching her, and released Gongsun Lian from the Void Stone.
• Bai Lan gave Gongsun Lian ten thousand Spirit Stones, Soul Nurturing Pills, talismans, and the Green Ghost Banner for her mission.
• Bai Lan urged Gongsun Lian to collect eight opportunity points a year, then reminded her that she controlled a fragment of Gongsun Lian’s soul.
• Gongsun Lian accepted the mission and asked Bai Lan to keep calling her Gongsun Lian instead of Lian’er.

Bai Lan met the Bao Wan Lou swindler in Golden Rainbow City and learned that the swindler was a disguised woman who planned to take her to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion on Cangwu Continent. Bai Lan agreed to go and had the system prepare a list of opportunities there.

• Bai Lan disguised herself as Long Aotian and traveled to Golden Rainbow City to meet Daoist Changsheng at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Bai Lan discovered that the middle-aged woman waiting there was the Bao Wan Lou swindler, though she remained unsure of the woman's true appearance.
• The middle-aged woman told Bai Lan that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion was on Cangwu Continent and that she would arrange their trip through a Teleportation Array.
• Bai Lan asked the system to compile a list of Cangwu Continent opportunities and told the woman she would rely on her for safety and support.

Bai Lan negotiated with Li Xunxian, Daoist Longevity, for protection in exchange for helping her enter the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. After Bai Lan demonstrated her Soul Severing technique, she grew wary of Li Xunxian’s interest in her talent and considered using the Pavilion’s assassination work to pursue her own goals.

• Bai Lan demanded a period of protection, and Li Xunxian swore that Bai Lan could seek her protection for ten years if she entered the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• Li Xunxian revealed her identity as Daoist Longevity, a Guest Elder at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion branch in Golden Rainbow City, and asked about Bai Lan’s progress with the Heaven-grade technique.
• Li Xunxian summoned a late Qi Refining stage Yin Ghost and asked Bai Lan to kill it with Soul Severing.
• Bai Lan used her Foundation Establishment stage divine sense to destroy the Yin Ghost, impressing Li Xunxian and making Bai Lan wary of her reaction.
• Li Xunxian explained that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion handled assassinations involving humans, demon beasts, Ghost Cultivators, and evil creatures, and Bai Lan considered taking a mission against a Foundation Establishment stage demonic cultivator.

Bai Lan learned about the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion trials and traveled with Daoist Longevity to the Cangwu Continent, where she planned to exploit Long Aotian’s future encounter with the Lan sisters. She left Daoist Longevity knowing that she and Long Aotian were enemies and that Bai Lan had already done good deeds in his name.

• Daoist Longevity explained the three deadly trials and their rewards, and said she would take Bai Lan to Tiandu City in two months.
• Bai Lan concealed her connection to the Lan Family after suspecting Daoist Longevity might act against her, then learned that the Lan Family ruled Tiandu City and held great influence.
• The system revealed Long Aotian’s planned encounter with the Lan sisters, but Bai Lan had the Art of Condensing Ice and Transforming Qi that his story depended on.
• Bai Lan decided to take Long Aotian’s harem and resources and carry out her future deeds in his name to make enemies for him in Tiandu City.
• Bai Lan and Daoist Longevity traveled to the Cangwu Continent through a Teleportation Array, and Daoist Longevity defended Bai Lan from a suspicious attendant.
• Daoist Longevity asked about Bai Lan’s relationship with Long Aotian, and Bai Lan said they were enemies.

Bai Lan accepted Daoist Changsheng's arrangement to stay at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion while the senior escorted goods, then investigated Li Xunxian's background by bribing an attendant. After returning to an earlier save, Bai Lan settled into a guarded cultivation room and was interrupted by a message from the attendant's Sound Transmission Talisman.

• Daoist Changsheng promised to kill Long Aotian if she encountered him and arranged a cultivation room for Bai Lan at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion before leaving on an escort mission.
• Bai Lan questioned a red-clad attendant about Li Xunxian and paid her Spirit Stones to learn that Li was a mysterious Rogue Cultivator, a skilled alchemist, and a Core Formation Guest Elder of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• After gathering the information, Bai Lan loaded her save from a quarter-hour earlier and followed the attendant to her cultivation room without spending Spirit Stones again.
• Bai Lan checked the stone chamber, set down a Tortoise Shell Formation and a Spirit Gathering Array, and prepared to cultivate toward the ninth level of Qi Refining.
• Bai Lan's Sound Transmission Talisman lit up just as she was about to enter seclusion.

Nan Xianshi told Bai Lan that Bai Ling had been exposed and was facing punishment at the Azure Origin Sect. Hanxu Zi destroyed the Divine Phoenix Remnant Soul protecting Bai Ling, but before he could finish her, He Gui arrived to ransom Lan Ning and exchanged information about a ruin for his son's release.

• Nan Xianshi contacted Bai Lan in shock and reported that Bai Ling had gotten into trouble at the Azure Origin Sect.
• Hanxu Zi and True Person Qing He discussed Bai Ling's crimes, and Hanxu Zi decided to kill her publicly.
• A Phoenix Soul shielded Bai Ling from Hanxu Zi's blue flames, but he seized and refined the Divine Phoenix Remnant Soul, leaving Bai Ling unconscious from the backlash.
• He Gui appeared above the Azure Origin Sect in a puppet body and offered information about a ruin in exchange for Lan Ning's life.
• Hanxu Zi accepted the bargain and returned Lan Ning to He Gui, and Lan Ning expressed relief at seeing his father.

Lan Ning reunited with Bai Ling, who claimed Bai Lan had exposed him and begged him to flee with her. Hanxu Zi crippled Bai Ling and demanded ten million Spirit Stones to let Lan Ning take her away, leaving Lan Ning and He Gui facing the price.

• Bai Ling emerged from the main hall and told Lan Ning that Bai Lan had reported him to the sect, insisting she had never intended to harm him.
• Lan Ning recalled that Bai Ling had tried to rescue him and agreed to take her with him, but He Gui struck him down and rebuked him for his ingratitude.
• Hanxu Zi blasted Bai Ling into a stone pillar and destroyed her dantian and spiritual root, leaving her a mortal.
• Hanxu Zi said Lan Ning could take Bai Ling away for ten million Spirit Stones, despite her being unable to cultivate or benefit the demonic path.

Hanxu Zi traded the gravely wounded Bai Ling to He Gui in exchange for two Spirit Stone veins, despite her senior brothers' pleas. He took her jade bracelet, unaware it could only form a bond with Bai Ling, and left angrily after the disciples challenged his decision.

• Xiao Tianqi, Nangong Yuan, and Le Qing rushed to Bai Ling and tried to heal her, but Hanxu Zi's injuries resisted their pills and spiritual power.
• Lan Ning offered to do anything He Gui wanted if he saved Bai Ling, and He Gui offered Hanxu Zi two South Mountain Spirit Stone veins for her.
• Hanxu Zi seized Bai Ling's jade bracelet and handed her to He Gui's demonic path cultivators.
• Bai Ling's senior brothers condemned Hanxu Zi for surrendering an Azure Origin Sect disciple, and he insulted them before leaving in anger.

Nan Xianshi told Bai Lan how Hanxu Zi had sent Bai Ling away with Lan Ning and punished Xiao Tianqi, Nangong Yuan, and Le Qing by sending them to Meditation Cliff. Bai Lan anticipated that Bai Ling would still rise again and planned to secure future opportunities before returning to Azure Origin Sect, where a war between the righteous and demonic paths seemed imminent.

• Law Enforcement Hall disciples escorted Xiao Tianqi, Nangong Yuan, and Le Qing to Meditation Cliff for defending Bai Ling and disrespecting Hanxu Zi.
• Nan Xianshi recounted the events to Bai Lan, including Bai Ling's capture by Lan Ning and the punishment of the three disciples.
• Bai Lan predicted that Bai Ling would regain power and return to Qing Xuan's side, so she planned to watch for opportunities and coordinate with Qiu Tian and Gongsun Lian.
• Bai Lan and Nan Xianshi discussed how Jade Purity Peak had lost its peak master and senior disciples, leaving its ordinary disciples without support.
• Nan Xianshi told Bai Lan that Zi Ling, Lingxiao, and someone claiming to be Qi Xiaoru's older brother had sought her, but Bai Lan said she would return after finishing her work.
• Bai Lan expected the righteous and demonic paths to go to war soon and looked forward to the resources she could gain by fighting demons.

After reaching Qi Refining level nine, Bai Lan was confronted by Xue'er and a Myriad Treasures Pavilion attendant over the promises she had made as Long Aotian. She tried to win Xue'er's sympathy with an excuse and began explaining that Li Xunxian had forced her to make a Heart Demon Vow.

• Bai Lan broke through to Qi Refining level nine and stabilized her cultivation.
• A Myriad Treasures Pavilion attendant brought Xue'er to confront Bai Lan about her past promises as Long Aotian.
• Bai Lan apologized to Xue'er, who said she would not blame him for abandoning their plans to leave Mist Cloud Continent together.
• Bai Lan claimed she avoided Xue'er because she did not want to drag her into danger.
• Bai Lan pulled Xue'er and the attendant into her room, set up a soundproof restriction, and began claiming Li Xunxian had forced her to make a Heart Demon Vow.

Bai Lan, disguised as Long Aotian, persuaded Xue'er that Ling Xunxian threatened his life and accepted Xue'er's protection. Xue'er left after Bai Lan repeatedly used the danger as an excuse to avoid intimacy, while the system remarked on Long Aotian's terrifying harem.

• Bai Lan told Xue'er that Ling Xunxian's dangerous demand could get him killed and promised to flee with her if he survived the next three months.
• Xue'er vowed to protect Bai Lan and revealed that her father's old friend managed Tiandu City's Black Market, while A Jiu warned her not to act rashly.
• Xue'er gave Bai Lan her Lineage's token, which could summon her mid-stage Core Formation Clan Uncle to protect him.
• A Jiu left after failing to make Xue'er doubt Long Aotian, and Bai Lan promised Xue'er she was his one and only.
• When Xue'er tried to take their relationship further, Bai Lan used Ling Xunxian's threat to send her away, and the system expressed relief.

Bai Lan planned to find Lan Jinyu and pass on the cultivation art that could cure her Profound Yin Absolute Pulse, while using Long Aotian’s face to provoke Xue’er’s friend A Jiu into opposing him. After evading Li Xunxian’s watcher, Bai Lan emerged in her own appearance and prepared to approach Lan Jinyu herself.

• Bai Lan learned that Lan Jinyu’s Profound Yin Absolute Pulse could be cured by the Art of Condensing Ice and Transforming Qi, and set out to find her.
• A Jiu warned Bai Lan, disguised as Long Aotian, to leave Xue’er alone, but Bai Lan provoked her into promising to kill Long Aotian when Xue’er was away.
• Bai Lan detected a Foundation Establishment cultivator following her and hid inside the Void Stone until he left.
• The black-robed cultivator reported losing Bai Lan to Li Xunxian, who ordered him to keep her from leaving the Myriad Treasures Pavilion starting the next day.
• Bai Lan waited out the watcher’s false departure, then emerged wearing the Hidden Spirit Robe and her own appearance.