Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan met True Lord Suiyun at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and learned that information about the Apex Tribulation was hidden beneath Hidden Dragon Abyss. After reloading her save to avoid becoming his disciple, she offered him a demonic cultivation method instead, leaving him curious about her master.

• Elder Gu questioned how demonic cultivator True Lord Suiyun could take righteous cultivator Bai Lan as his disciple, but Suiyun insisted that their different paths did not prevent him from teaching her.
• Bai Lan gave Suiyun two Heavenly Tier demonic cultivation methods, delighting him and prompting him to ask what she wanted in return.
• Bai Lan asked whether the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion knew the Apex Tribulation's whereabouts, and Suiyun told her about the cold prison beneath Hidden Dragon Abyss, where he had once found and consumed three Apex Tribulations.
• Bai Lan reloaded her save to avoid becoming entangled with Suiyun and told him she already had a master.
• Bai Lan offered Suiyun the Burning Heaven Infinite Technique in exchange for the Purple Firmament True Fire, and he asked who her master was.

Bai Lan repeatedly tried to manipulate True Lord Suiyun, but Suiyun saw through her first lie and insisted on bringing her into the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion as an adoptive daughter. Bai Lan agreed on the condition that Suiyun eliminate True Monarch Wu Yin, and offered his Primordial Essence Pill as payment.

• Bai Lan claimed Wu Yin was her master, but True Lord Suiyun exposed the lie through divination.
• Bai Lan named Xuan Sha Zi, Gongsun Sha as her master, and Suiyun believed her before revealing her grudge against him.
• After Bai Lan reloaded, Gongsun Sha raged about Suiyun tying him up to refine pills and stealing his Ice Flame.
• True Lord Suiyun spared Gongsun Sha because he had once saved her life, then pressed Bai Lan to become her adoptive daughter and the Young Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• Bai Lan tried reloading to avoid Suiyun's offer, but ultimately agreed to join her fold if Suiyun killed True Monarch Wu Yin.
• Bai Lan offered Wu Yin's Primordial Essence Pill as payment, and Suiyun reacted with surprise.

Bai Lan persuaded True Lord Suiyun to target Wu Yin by revealing the Chaos Essence Flower Pill’s whereabouts and became the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master. She learned that Gongsun Lian had hidden five hundred thousand Spirit Stones at the Gongsun Estate ruins and arranged for Suiyun to hunt Wu Yin.

• Bai Lan claimed she could divine that True Lord Suiyun did not possess a Chaos Essence Flower Pill, then revealed that Wu Yin had one.
• Bai Lan convinced True Lord Suiyun to treat Wu Yin as an enemy and seek the pill, and the two acknowledged each other as godmother and goddaughter.
• Bai Lan asked Gongsun Lian about Wu Yin, and Gongsun Lian explained that she had hidden five hundred thousand Spirit Stones at the Gongsun Estate ruins.
• Bai Lan sent True Lord Suiyun several possible locations for Wu Yin and told Gongsun Lian she had hired a Nascent Soul Cultivator to kill him.
• Bai Lan became the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master, identifiable to its assassins by the Purple Firmament True Fire.

Bai Lan discovered that True Person Chang Lu was a fellow member of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and arranged for him to accompany her back to the Azure Sect. She waited for Di Wu Yin to emerge from Demon Yin Island, planning to use Li Xunxian’s attempt to kill her to make Di Wu Yin turn against Long Aotian.

• Bai Lan and True Person Chang Lu recognized each other as members of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and agreed to keep each other’s identities secret.
• True Person Chang Lu warned Bai Lan that demonic elders might target her after she left the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, and he agreed to travel with her after learning that reinforcements would help.
• Bai Lan arranged to meet True Person Chang Lu outside Tiandu City in half a month and decided to wait for Fifth Senior Sister to emerge from Demon Yin Island before dealing with Li Xunxian.
• Bai Lan disguised herself as Long Aotian and waited by the secret realm’s exit for Di Wu Yin, intending to exploit Li Xunxian’s planned attempt to kill her and take her treasure.

Disguised as Long Aotian, Bai Lan tricked Di Wu Yin into taking a poisoned Blood Recovery Pill and secretly copied the contents of her Storage Bag. She then planned to meet Li Xunxian, who learned that Long Aotian had appeared in the trial and killed more than a hundred cultivators.

• Di Wu Yin emerged from the secret realm badly wounded, and Bai Lan, wearing Long Aotian's face, offered her a Blood Recovery Pill.
• Di Wu Yin checked the pill with her divine sense before swallowing it, then spoke affectionately with Bai Lan about Long Aotian waiting for her.
• As Di Wu Yin meditated, the pill slowed her spiritual energy and muddled her mind; Bai Lan revealed that she had mixed it with soul-bewildering powder and poison.
• Bai Lan searched Di Wu Yin's Storage Bag, copied its cultivation techniques and divine abilities, and returned it before leaving to find Li Xunxian.
• A Sound Transmission Talisman told Li Xunxian that Long Aotian had eliminated more than a hundred Qi Refining cultivators and killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator, leaving him stunned.

Bai Lan lured Li Xunxian into revealing her interest in the Apex Tribulation pills, then staged a betrayal of Di Wu Yin to expose Li Xunxian’s intentions. As Li Xunxian prepared to attack Bai Lan, three Core Formation cultivators arrived, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Li Xunxian learned that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s new Young Pavilion Master might lead her to the Apex Tribulation pills and decided to approach her while planning to deal with Long Aotian herself.
• Bai Lan met Li Xunxian in a cave and claimed the Pavilion Master had obtained three Apex Tribulations from Hidden Dragon Abyss.
• Bai Lan revealed the poisoned, unconscious Di Wu Yin and urged Li Xunxian to kill her and search her soul for the pill formula.
• Di Wu Yin awoke, confronted Long Aotian, and detonated two Fifth Tier Talismans before escaping a hundred li with a teleportation talisman.
• Li Xunxian turned on Bai Lan, but three Core Formation cultivators approached, and Bai Lan hid inside her Golden Bell Shield and shed her disguise.

Bai Lan used her save-reloading ability to evade Ling Xunxian’s attempt to force a demonic gu insect into her, then summoned three Core Formation cultivators to protect her. Ling Xunxian was left surrounded and bewildered by Bai Lan’s unexpected allies.

• Ling Xunxian prepared to strike Bai Lan’s Golden Bell Shield, so Bai Lan reloaded her save and warned her approaching helpers to conceal their auras.
• Bai Lan refused to trust Ling Xunxian’s promise to remove the poison after she swallowed a gu insect, and Ling Xunxian tried to force it into her mouth.
• True Person Chang Lu emerged from hiding and protected Bai Lan, then Yun Shuiyue and the Black Market elder arrived to support him.
• Lan Jinyu and Lan Jinyao recognized Bai Lan as their ancestor, while the Black Market elder realized she was the beloved Xue'er had asked him to protect.
• Surrounded by three Core Formation cultivators, Li Xunxian demanded to know who Bai Lan was, and Bai Lan smiled as she questioned how thoroughly Li Xunxian had investigated her.

Bai Lan arranged for True Person Chang Lu, Yun Shuiyue, and a Black Guard elder to fight Li Xunxian, while she strengthened her ties with Lan Jinyu and Lan Jinyao by revealing secrets and passing them valuable resources. The three Core Formation cultivators gained the upper hand, and Li Xunxian faced death as the battle neared its end.

• Bai Lan secured the help of True Person Chang Lu, Yun Shuiyue, and the Black Guard elder, who attacked Li Xunxian together.
• The collapsing cave forced Bai Lan, Lan Jinyu, and Lan Jinyao to retreat while Li Xunxian swallowed a pill and raised her cultivation to mid-Core Formation.
• Bai Lan gave Lan Jinyu Wang Tianba's pill formulas and demonic cultivation art, then claimed she had killed him to protect Jinyu.
• Bai Lan warned the sisters to investigate the Wang Family's demonic cultivation in secret and told them she would eventually leave the Cangwu Continent.
• Bai Lan gave Lan Jinyu a Jade Slip identifying three undiscovered mineral veins as Li Xunxian's spiritual energy dwindled under the three cultivators' assault.

Bai Lan realized Ling Xunxian had sent her soul out of her body before detonating a talisman, and suspected it survived in an artifact or ring. After paying off the cultivators who helped kill Ling Xunxian, Bai Lan thanked Yun Shuiyue and the Lan sisters, then turned to True Person Chang Lu.

• Ling Xunxian detonated a sixth-rank talisman, but Bai Lan reloaded and noticed her soul had left her body just before the blast.
• Bai Lan joined the others at the battlefield and suspected Ling Xunxian's soul was preserved in her ring or another object.
• Bai Lan gave the three Core Formation cultivators jade boxes containing Spirit Stones so she could keep Ling Xunxian's belongings.
• Bai Lan thanked the Black Market elder, Yun Shuiyue, and the Lan sisters for helping save her.
• Bai Lan turned toward True Person Chang Lu, who told her to come.

After defeating Xuan Sha Zi, Bai Lan collected the spoils and confronted Li Xunxian, whose remnant soul was hiding in a ring. She then set out to find the poisoned Di Wu Yin and make her sever her ties with Long Aotian.

• Bai Lan declined to return to the sect with True Person Chang Lu and stayed behind, claiming she needed to gather spirit herbs while intending to search for Di Wu Yin.
• Bai Lan collected the Storage Bags, rings, and Xuan Sha Zi's ashes, then entered the Void Stone and discovered Li Xunxian's remnant soul in a ring.
• Bai Lan threatened Li Xunxian with a nonexistent Nine Palaces Soul-Seizing Formation and demanded a Divine Soul Contract before leaving her to consider.
• Bai Lan contacted Di Wu Yin, but Di Wu Yin concealed her location and cut off their communication because she trusted no one after Long Aotian's betrayal.
• Bai Lan decided to search the area inch by inch and force Di Wu Yin to make a Heart Demon Vow severing her connection to Long Aotian.

Bai Lan searched Youming Island through repeated save loads until she found the poisoned Di Wu Yin and rescued her from an Ironclad Rhinoceros. After Di Wu Yin revealed that Long Aotian had poisoned her, Bai Lan offered to take her to Tiandu City and promised she could cure the poison.

• Bai Lan searched Youming Island repeatedly and found Di Wu Yin fighting an Ironclad Rhinoceros in the last unexplored grove.
• Bai Lan drove off the beast, supported the weakened Di Wu Yin, and offered her a Calming Pill.
• Di Wu Yin hesitated to trust Bai Lan but swallowed the pill after Bai Lan took one herself, temporarily suppressing the poison.
• Di Wu Yin identified Long Aotian as the person who poisoned her, and Bai Lan claimed Long Aotian had once tried to destroy her family over a broken engagement.
• Bai Lan invited Di Wu Yin to return to Tiandu City with her and promised she could cure the poison.

Bai Lan brought the poisoned Di Wu Yin to True Person Chang Lu and proposed using her to locate Long Aotian. Back at the Azure Origin Sect, Bai Lan maneuvered the elders into pressuring Chang Lu to accept her as a disciple, though he claimed his lifespan was nearly over.

• Bai Lan told True Person Chang Lu that Di Wu Yin’s poison came from Long Aotian and said she could use Di Wu Yin to find him.
• True Person Chang Lu invited Di Wu Yin to recuperate at the Azure Origin Sect, and she agreed after Bai Lan promised to find a cure for her poison.
• Bai Lan left a map of opportunity-gathering locations for the Lan sisters before returning to the Azure Origin Sect with Di Wu Yin and True Person Chang Lu.
• True Person Qing He asked Bai Lan to choose an elder as her master, and Bai Lan named True Person Chang Lu.
• When the elders challenged Chang Lu to accept Bai Lan, he claimed his lifespan was nearing its end, though he privately admitted he could live for at least four hundred more years.

Bai Lan joined the Law Enforcement Hall after proving she had killed a Foundation Establishment Evil Cultivator, then learned the righteous sects planned to seize the Joyous Union Sect’s mines. True Person Chang Lu’s fabricated story about losing most of his lifespan unexpectedly earned him two Longevity Pills from True Person Qing He.

• Bai Lan presented the ashes of a Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator she had killed with Thunder Fire Beads, and True Lord Lingxiao made her an inner sect disciple in the Law Enforcement Hall.
• True Person Qing He told the elders that the Joyous Union Sect was preparing to defect to the demonic path and ordered the four sects to seize its Spirit Stone mines.
• Bai Lan listened to the plans and resolved to learn when the Joyous Union Sect would withdraw so she could move its mountain gate and buildings.
• True Person Qing He stopped True Person Chang Lu and questioned why his lifespan was nearly exhausted despite his young age when he formed his core.
• True Person Chang Lu blamed a demonic cultivator’s formation for draining his lifespan, and True Person Qing He gave him two Longevity Pills after explaining that he had already taken three.

Bai Lan prepared to break through to Foundation Establishment so she could join the sect’s fight over a Spirit Stone mine. She forced Li Xunxian to accept Ghost Cultivation under threat of the Purple Firmament True Fire, then began preparing to cultivate.

• True Person Qing He gave True Person Chang Lu pills and ordered him to recover in seclusion instead of seeking the secret realm before reaching the seventh level of Core Formation.
• Bai Lan returned to her outer-sect courtyard and planned to break through to Foundation Establishment before the elders and elite disciples went to the mineral vein.
• Bai Lan counted the more than one hundred Foundation Establishment Pills she had collected from Storage Bags on Demon Yin Island and prepared to use several for her breakthrough.
• The system told Bai Lan that Li Xunxian had insulted him after refusing to be persuaded, and Bai Lan threatened Li Xunxian with the Purple Firmament True Fire.
• Li Xunxian recognized Bai Lan as the new young pavilion master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and agreed to cooperate after Bai Lan rejected her attempt to seize Bai Lan’s body.
• Bai Lan gave Li Xunxian Gongsun Lian’s Ghost Cultivator technique, then told the system not to disturb her while she made her breakthrough.

After Bai Lan captured Ling Xunxian and gave her a Heavenly Tier demonic cultivation method, she attempted Foundation Establishment and succeeded by consuming ten Foundation Establishment Pills. A sudden lightning tribulation struck her courtyard, leaving Bai Lan wondering why heaven was targeting a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• The System and Artifact Spirit ordered Ling Xunxian to cultivate and prepare to work, while Ling Xunxian began studying Bai Lan’s Myriad Illusions Demonic Art.
• Bai Lan swallowed five Foundation Establishment Pills and found that the spiritual energy was insufficient to complete her five elemental Dao foundations.
• Bai Lan took five more pills and used the Chaos Yin Yang Art to strengthen her meridians and establish all five Dao foundations.
• Bai Lan completed Foundation Establishment, but dark clouds gathered and thunder sounded overhead.
• Bai Lan stored her belongings in the Void Stone, then saw purple lightning destroy her courtyard.

Bai Lan survived a lightning tribulation during her breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment stage by hiding in the Void Stone, then returned to Tongming Peak and received a secret-realm map from True Lord Lingxiao. She planned to leave that night to seize the Joyous Union Sect’s spirit stone mine, while Li Xunxian signed a Divine Soul Contract and realized Bai Lan had obtained Xuan Sha Zi’s inheritance.

• Bai Lan emerged from the Void Stone, faked severe injuries, and convinced the arriving cultivators that the lightning tribulation had wounded her.
• True Lord Lingxiao brought Bai Lan to Tongming Peak, advised her to heal before pursuing the Joyous Union Sect’s mine, and gave her a Jade Slip marking a possible Nascent Soul True Lord’s secret realm.
• After True Lord Lingxiao left a Fourth Tier Defense Array outside her cave dwelling, Bai Lan decided to set out that night to seize the mine.
• Bai Lan entered the Void Stone and congratulated Li Xunxian on reaching the ninth layer of the Qi Refining stage, then displayed her Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Li Xunxian signed a Divine Soul Contract with Bai Lan and connected the Gongsun Family cultivation method to the inheritance from Xuan Sha Zi.

Bai Lan subdued Li Xunxian, learned about her informant in the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, and assigned her work inside the Void Stone. Back at Iron Refining Peak, Bai Lan proposed a way to track down Long Aotian by following Soul Nurturing Wood.

• Li Xunxian realized Bai Lan had been the one refining Disguise Pills and was forced to accept their new relationship of subordination.
• Bai Lan introduced Li Xunxian to Gongsun Lian, who recognized her as another fallen cultivator of the Yin Demon Thousand Illusions Technique and shared her own history with Bai Lan.
• Li Xunxian told Bai Lan that Yan Hao, a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion assassin, had infiltrated the organization and become the disciple of Elder Yan Ming.
• Bai Lan left Li Xunxian in the Void Stone, where the Artifact Spirit ordered her to reclaim spirit fields and the system revealed Bai Lan had planned against her from the start.
• At Iron Refining Peak, Bai Lan met Ji Feng, True Person Chang Lu, and Di Wu Yin as they discussed finding Long Aotian.
• Bai Lan proposed tracking Long Aotian by searching for Soul Nurturing Wood.

Bai Lan revealed that Long Aotian carried a Nascent Soul remnant soul, prompting True Person Chang Lu and Ji Feng to pursue him and search for Li Fen. After curing Di Wu Yin’s poison and binding her with a vow against Long Aotian, Bai Lan recruited her to infiltrate Joyous Union Sect Spirit Stone mines and profit from the coming sect conflict.

• Bai Lan explained that Long Aotian’s Nascent Soul remnant soul had protected him, and Ji Feng deduced that he would seek Soul Nurturing Wood.
• True Person Chang Lu and Ji Feng set out to capture Long Aotian alive and find Li Fen.
• Bai Lan demanded that Di Wu Yin swear to remain Long Aotian’s enemy before giving her an antidote secretly mixed with Li Xunxian’s Child Gu.
• Di Wu Yin took the pills, swore the vow, and thanked Bai Lan for saving her.
• Bai Lan showed Di Wu Yin a map of Joyous Union Sect Spirit Stone veins and proposed using her identity to infiltrate them during the coming battle.
• Di Wu Yin agreed to join Bai Lan’s plan to steal Spirit Stones and move an entire mineral vein.

Bai Lan’s plan to make Bai Ling indebted to Qiu Tian began when Bai Ling fled the Demonic Palace and was rescued from a staged attack. Qiu Tian gave her a Storage Bag containing a prepared demonic cultivation method, leaving Bai Ling to accept his help.

• Bai Ling fled the Demonic Palace after Lan Ning became occupied searching for a way to restore her spiritual roots and her guards neglected her.
• Gongsun Lian and Qiu Tian prepared to stage an attack and rescue Bai Ling, following Bai Lan’s plan to keep her from meeting He Gui unprepared.
• Gongsun Lian attacked Bai Ling with controlled ghostly energy, and Qiu Tian intervened with his sword to shield her.
• Gongsun Lian faked her death and left Qiu Tian to continue the act, reminding him to behave like a demonic cultivator.
• Qiu Tian gave Bai Ling the Storage Bag containing a Heavenly Tier Demonic Cultivation Method, and she hesitated to accept it.

Qiu Tian rescued Bai Ling and persuaded her to travel with him, while secretly following Bai Lan’s plan to make her fall for him. Bai Lan learned that Gongsun Lian had infiltrated the Demonic Palace as an outer hall deacon and rejected her invitation to join the demonic path.

• Qiu Tian claimed Bai Ling had saved him before and took her away from the demonic cultivators pursuing her.
• Qiu Tian promised to protect Bai Ling, and she was moved by his kindness despite not remembering ever saving him.
• After Bai Ling fell asleep, Qiu Tian told Bai Lan he had approached her, and Bai Lan ordered him to make her fall for him and lead her near the Ten Thousand Ghost Cavern.
• Bai Lan learned from Qiu Tian that Gongsun Lian had broken through to Foundation Establishment and become a Demonic Palace outer hall deacon.
• Bai Lan refused Gongsun Lian’s proposal that she join the demonic path and help her take over the Demonic Palace.