Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan planned to steal the opportunity tied to Yue’s death and went with Di Wu Yin to infiltrate a Joyous Union Sect mine before the Four Great Sects arrived. After disguising themselves as injured Joyous Union Sect disciples, they persuaded the guards to let them inside.

• Bai Lan recalled that Yue would die during his next lightning tribulation and planned to use Gongsun Lian to seize his wealth before Long Aotian could claim it.
• Bai Lan searched for an opportunity that could nourish a Ghost Cultivator while waiting for Di Wu Yin’s poison to be cured.
• Bai Lan and Di Wu Yin agreed to reach the Joyous Union Sect mines before the Four Great Sects and take a share of the spirit stones.
• Bai Lan and Di Wu Yin disguised themselves as Joyous Union Sect inner disciples and approached a large Spirit Stone mine.
• Di Wu Yin presented a genuine token, while Bai Lan claimed righteous cultivators had stolen her Storage Bag and pretended to be gravely injured.
• Di Wu Yin invoked the authority of their supposed masters, and the wary disciple let them enter the Defense Array.

Bai Lan and Di Wu Yin kept their identities hidden while a Joyous Union Sect disciple monitored them, and Bai Lan planned to exploit the coming attack to enter the mine. She sent Li Xunxian to possess an outer disciple and help move the spirit stone vein into the Void Stone.

• Bai Lan deflected the Joyous Union disciple’s questions by discussing the strained relations between the Joyous Union Sect and the demonic path.
• Di Wu Yin worried that the disciple’s constant scrutiny would expose them, and Bai Lan said they would wait for the Golden Qi Sect to attack.
• Bai Lan secretly entered the Void Stone and told Li Xunxian it was time to infiltrate the mine using possession.
• Bai Lan gave Li Xunxian three Golden Qi Sect game pieces that could be used as artifacts or formation flags to move the spirit stone vein.
• The Artifact Spirit explained the Void Stone could contain the vein, and the system volunteered to supervise the work.

Li Xunxian possessed a Joyous Union Sect disciple and, with Bai Lan and the system, began looting a large spiritual vein before the Golden Qi Sect arrived. When Golden Qi Sect forces attacked, Di Wu Yin seized the chance to rush into the mine with Bai Lan.

• Li Xunxian questioned how she had lost to Bai Lan, and Bai Lan sent her and the system out of the Void Stone to strip eighty percent of the vein while leaving the rest for the Golden Qi Sect.
• Li Xunxian possessed a Joyous Union Sect disciple, stole her Storage Bag contents, and volunteered to enter the mine.
• Di Wu Yin asked to enter the mine with Bai Lan, but a Joyous Union Sect disciple refused because of the Sect Master's orders.
• Bai Lan told Li Xunxian to use poisonous mist against the Joyous Union Sect disciples, and Li Xunxian killed those inside the mine while the system gathered their Storage Bags.
• Li Xunxian used the Mountain Suppressing Banner to move the mineral vein into the Void Stone, taking Soul Nurturing Pills from the system to continue.
• A messenger reported that True Person Yunlai and Golden Qi Sect Foundation Establishment disciples had attacked, so Di Wu Yin pulled Bai Lan into the mine to investigate.

Bai Lan and Di Wu Yin fled into the Joyous Union Sect mine, hoping to find Spirit Stones, but discovered that Li Xunxian had already emptied most of it. Outside, Joyous Union Sect elders revealed a trap against the Golden Qi Sect, surrounding its cultivators and preparing to attack.

• Bai Lan and Di Wu Yin abandoned the Joyous Union Sect disciples to enter the mine tunnel, while the remaining cultivators fortified their formation against the Golden Qi Sect.
• Di Wu Yin searched the mine and found most of it emptied, with only a few low-grade Spirit Stones left behind.
• Bai Lan asked whether Di Wu Yin's disciple token could still grant access to the Joyous Union Sect, and Di Wu Yin explained that she had been branded a traitor.
• Bai Lan and Di Wu Yin began digging for the remaining Spirit Stones as several Tribulation Crossing stage cultivators arrived outside.
• True Lord Hong Xiao and two demonic-path cultivators surrounded the Golden Qi Sect forces, while True Lord Hegui prepared to defend his disciples and a demonic cultivator threatened them.

Bai Lan learned that demonic cultivators had cornered True Lord Hegui and left Di Wu Yin to escape to another mine. She used Hanxu Zi's talisman to force the attackers to hesitate, and True Lord Hegui stood with her as the confrontation paused.

• The system told Bai Lan that demonic cultivators were attacking the Golden Qi Sect and that True Lord Hegui was struggling against three Core Formation cultivators.
• Bai Lan sent Di Wu Yin to the next mine vein and went to investigate the fighting herself.
• Bai Lan brandished a talisman containing Ancestor Hanxu's Mid Nascent Soul strike and warned the demonic cultivators to leave Hegui alone.
• True Lord Hong Xiao and the other demonic cultivators tried to restrain Bai Lan and take the talisman, but Bai Lan escaped their spiritual sense pressure and threatened to tear it.
• Hegui drove back nearby demonic cultivators, protected Bai Lan, and thanked her for arriving in time.

Bai Lan used her talisman and a convincing show of righteous resolve to force the demonic cultivators to abandon their attempt to seize the mine vein. After they withdrew, she reminded True Lord Hong Xiao of the danger posed by Ancestor Yunyang, while the surviving Golden Qi Sect cultivators thanked her and one apologized for his past resentment.

• Bai Lan insisted that the mine vein belonged to the Golden Qi Sect and threatened to detonate Ancestor Hanxu's talisman when True Lord Hong Xiao challenged her.
• Bai Lan claimed she would gladly die to eliminate three demonic cultivators, convincing True Lord Hegui and making Hong Xiao hesitate to test her talisman.
• A Core Formation demonic cultivator urged Hong Xiao to withdraw, and Hong Xiao led her people away after Bai Lan warned that Ancestor Yunyang might avenge Bai Ling.
• True Lord Hegui lamented the Golden Qi Sect's casualties, and the surviving cultivators thanked Bai Lan for saving them.
• An eighth-level Foundation Establishment cultivator apologized to Bai Lan for resenting her victory and attacking Junior Brother Xiao Tianqi in the past.

Bai Lan concealed her theft of a spirit vein from True Lord Hegui and the Golden Qi Sect, then turned her attention to the Carefree Sect and continued harvesting spirit veins. After moving four veins into the Void Stone, she sensed the enclosed world changing and recognized a feeling tied to her Chaos Spiritual Root.

• Bai Lan reassured the Golden Qi Sect cultivators that Xiao Tianqi would welcome a future fight, and they exchanged Sound Transmission Talismans.
• Bai Lan blamed the Joyous Union Sect for hollowing out the mine, and True Lord Hegui and the Golden Qi Sect cultivators believed her.
• Bai Lan planned to target the Carefree Sect and considered how she could win Meng Yurou over by defeating her in formations and humiliating Long Aotian.
• Bai Lan used Di Wu Yin's disciple token to infiltrate four mines and moved two large and two medium spirit veins into the Void Stone.
• Bai Lan watched the Void Stone's black qi fade into hazy grayness and connected the change to her understanding of the Chaos Spiritual Root.

Bai Lan sensed Chaos Qi in the Void Stone and planned to build a powerful Spirit Gathering Array, though she lacked the rare materials. She sent Li Xunxian to the Human Realm to find five-year-old Long Yanran, take her from the Long Family, and make her a disciple before Long Aotian could recruit her.

• Bai Lan watched the Artifact Spirit and the system transform the Void Stone’s mountains and sensed a trace of Chaos Qi.
• Bai Lan considered creating a ninth-tier Spirit Gathering Array but realized she lacked the necessary materials.
• Li Xunxian asked Bai Lan for a task, and Bai Lan told her to find Long Yanran in the Southern Kingdom.
• Bai Lan instructed Li Xunxian to remove Long Yanran from the Long Family and teach her cultivation rather than kill her.
• Bai Lan explained that Long Yanran had a rare Red Lotus Physique and Single Fire Spiritual Root, but accumulated fire poison had left her with a disfiguring birthmark.

Bai Lan assigned Li Xunxian to take Long Yanran as a disciple and recruit other mortals with spirit roots, then returned to Tiandu City with Di Wu Yin. Di Wu Yin resolved to kill Long Aotian, and Bai Lan offered to help while planning to exploit the clash.

• Bai Lan told Li Xunxian to guide Long Yanran into cultivation and make her swear a loyal Heart Demon Vow after Qi Induction.
• Bai Lan gave Li Xunxian Soul Nurturing Pills and said she would arrange to send her away in a few days.
• Bai Lan and Di Wu Yin returned to their inn in Tiandu City after obtaining four spirit veins and Spirit Stones.
• Di Wu Yin said she wanted to personally kill Long Aotian to avenge being framed and poisoned.
• Bai Lan warned Di Wu Yin that Long Aotian carried a Divinity Transformation expert's remnant soul and offered to help if she found his whereabouts.

Bai Lan directed True Person Chang Lu toward Falling Star Plains in search of Long Aotian, then watched True Lord Yunyang attack a mine occupied by the four great sects. True Lord Suiyun intervened to protect Bai Lan, leaving her to hide her connection to the Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Bai Lan told True Person Chang Lu that Di Wu Yin was searching for Long Aotian near Falling Star Plains and urged him to capture Long Aotian alive.
• True Person Chang Lu took Ji Feng back toward Falling Star Plains, despite Ji Feng pointing out they had already passed through it.
• Bai Lan arrived at the last mine vein, where True Lord Lingxiao and Qin Ruge were fighting the Joyous Union Sect's remaining defenders.
• True Lord Yunyang appeared and struck at the cultivators, but a barrier protected Bai Lan from the force of his attack.
• True Lord Suiyun arrived and confronted Yunyang, claiming Bai Lan was a junior from her household.
• Bai Lan reloaded to the moment Suiyun shielded her, then covered herself with a blood pouch and pretended to be dead.

True Lord Suiyun drove True Lord Yunyang away and invited Azure Sect elders to a secret realm said to contain a path to Spirit Transformation. After returning to the Azure Sect, Bai Lan found the four sects lamenting their losses, while the Azure Sect concealed that its own spirit veins remained intact.

• True Lord Yunyang threatened the Azure Sect before departing when True Lord Suiyun appeared.
• True Lord Suiyun sent tokens to True Person Lingxiao and Qin Ruge, asking them to invite Hanxu Zi, Wu Yin, and Fu Guang to a secret realm.
• Bai Lan thanked her godmother in secret, then Qin Ruge carried her onto a Flying Ship as the survivors fled back to the Azure Sect.
• At the Azure Sect, True Person Hegui and elders from the other sects complained that the Joyous Union Sect's spirit veins had been emptied.
• Qin Ruge and True Person Lingxiao pretended the Azure Sect's three medium spirit veins had also suffered losses, though they were intact.

Bai Lan prepared to draw Ning Yan into a secret-realm expedition while arranging to separate Azure Cloud Sect’s sister cultivators from Long Aotian. Before she reached Cangyuan City, Di Wu Yin confronted her over the deception, and Bai Lan captured her in the Void Stone and immobilized her with a gu worm.

• True Lord Lingxiao reported that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s Pavilion Master had invited three Azure Origin Sect ancestors to explore a secret realm for a chance to break through to Spirit Transformation.
• Bai Lan contacted Ning Yan, confirmed that Azure Cloud Daoist had reached Nascent Soul, and invited Ning Yan to explore the Sangu Ravine secret realm with her.
• Bai Lan and Ning Yan agreed to meet at an inn in Cangyuan City, where Bai Lan planned to sell materials and other goods from her Storage Bags.
• Di Wu Yin confronted Bai Lan, accusing her of disguising herself as Long Aotian and tricking her into attacking him.
• Bai Lan used the Void Stone to capture Di Wu Yin, where Li Xunxian watched as Bai Lan revealed that she had intended to bring Di Wu Yin to her side.
• Di Wu Yin attacked Bai Lan, but the gu worm inside her body paralyzed her as Bai Lan supported her.

Bai Lan forced Di Wu Yin to surrender a strand of her divine soul in exchange for removing the Heart Devouring Gu. She then asked Di Wu Yin where Long Aotian was, while privately planning to collect his dragon blood and investigate the Elderly Grandfather.

• Bai Lan threatened to let the gu devour Di Wu Yin's divine soul and use her body to kill Long Aotian, leaving Di Wu Yin no choice but to submit.
• Di Wu Yin gave Bai Lan a strand of her divine soul, and Ling Xunxian tried to comfort her.
• Ling Xunxian took offense at Bai Lan's teasing, turned into black smoke, and flew toward the spirit fields while the System chased after her.
• Bai Lan promised not to kill Long Aotian and demanded that Di Wu Yin reveal his location.

Bai Lan forced Di Wu Yin to lead her to Long Aotian’s cave in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, promising her cultivation rewards in exchange for forgetting him. They found Long Aotian with the fox girl Zi Yu, leaving Di Wu Yin stunned and Bai Lan facing another powerful figure from his harem.

• Bai Lan threatened Di Wu Yin with her captured divine sense and persuaded her to guide the way by promising her a place in the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and a future Qi Gathering Pill.
• Bai Lan sent Ning Yan to rest in Cangyuan City, then flew with Di Wu Yin to Long Aotian’s cave in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Di Wu Yin calmed the guarding Golden Armored Lion, and Bai Lan named it Sang Biao before Di Wu Yin opened the Defense Array.
• Bai Lan and Di Wu Yin entered the cave and found Long Aotian with a white fox woman; Long Aotian drew defensive artifacts while the fox challenged the intruders.
• The system identified the fox woman as Zi Yu, daughter of an eighth-rank Fox King and a seventh-rank demon fox.

Bai Lan altered Di Wu Yin’s Fourth Tier Defense Array into a Trapping Array and trapped Long Aotian and Zi Yu inside. She recognized Zi Yu as the fox clan’s princess and chose not to kill her, leaving open the chance to interfere with Long Aotian’s connection to the fox clan.

• Bai Lan stopped Di Wu Yin from opening the formation and studied its diagram by repeatedly reloading until she could alter it.
• Bai Lan changed the Defense Array into a Trapping Array, trapping Long Aotian and Zi Yu as they prepared for Dual Cultivation.
• Bai Lan greeted Long Aotian and asked after his sleeping master, while Long Aotian warned Zi Yu not to underestimate her.
• Di Wu Yin stood with Bai Lan, angered that Long Aotian had been meeting Zi Yu after she had risked her life for him.
• Bai Lan learned that threatening Zi Yu could draw her powerful family’s wrath and recognized her as the fox clan’s princess, whose clan held the Mysterious Yin Absorbing Yang Art.

Bai Lan fought Zi Yu inside the Trapping Array while testing her artifacts, and used Zi Yu’s fear of the Fox King to unsettle her. Zi Yu nearly exposed her identity, leaving her surprised that Bai Lan knew she was a fox.

• Bai Lan recalled how Zi Yu’s secret Dual Cultivation technique had tied her to Long Aotian and led the Fox King to hunt him.
• Bai Lan told Di Wu Yin to guard Long Aotian while she confronted Zi Yu.
• Bai Lan attacked Zi Yu with talismans, the Soul Piercer, the Heart-Bewitching Bell, a fan, and a greatsword, testing dozens of artifacts as Zi Yu defended herself and tried to break the array.
• Bai Lan hinted that the Fox King might discover Zi Yu had secretly run away, and Zi Yu nearly revealed her identity before asking how Bai Lan knew she was a fox.

Bai Lan obtained Zi Yu’s fox-clan memories through a soul-searching attempt, then rewound time before Zi Yu could be seriously harmed. She claimed to be a fox-clan member and asked Zi Yu to take her to the elder she had summoned.

• Bai Lan identified the drawbacks of Zi Yu’s Profound Yin Yang Absorption Technique, then subdued her and demanded the fox-clan inheritance.
• Zi Yu used her Charm Technique, but Di Wu Yin warned Bai Lan, who recovered and injured Zi Yu before beginning a soul search.
• Bai Lan learned Zi Yu’s memories and sensed a Seventh-tier Demonic Beast approaching, so she reloaded an archive to undo the confrontation.
• Bai Lan told Zi Yu she belonged to the fox clan, but Zi Yu sniffed her and insisted she was human.
• Bai Lan told Di Wu Yin she needed Zi Yu to enter the fox clan and retrieve something, then asked Zi Yu to take her to the summoned elder.

Bai Lan convinced Zi Yu and the fox clan’s Third Elder that she was a fox who had been victimized by human cultivators, turning them against Long Aotian. As Third Elder prepared to attack Long Aotian, Ancestor Han Xu, Ancestor Wu Yin, and an unknown Nascent Soul cultivator arrived in pursuit of him.

• Bai Lan presented fox clan techniques and claimed that a human had killed her fox body, sealed her soul in an artifact, and forced her to possess a cultivator.
• Bai Lan frightened Zi Yu with accounts of human cultivators’ cruelty and warned her about the consequences of dual cultivating with Long Aotian.
• Third Elder learned that Zi Yu intended to dual cultivate with a human and warned her that the Mysterious Yin Absorbing Yang Art would bind her to him for centuries.
• Zi Yu believed Bai Lan had come to save her, and Third Elder crushed Long Aotian to the ground after Bai Lan identified him as the man pursuing Zi Yu’s primordial yin.
• Ancestor Han Xu, Ancestor Wu Yin, and an unknown Nascent Soul cultivator arrived while pursuing Third Elder, forcing him to turn his attention toward them.

Bai Lan watched the Nascent Soul cultivators battle while Di Wu Yin confronted Long Aotian, who escaped with demonic wings before Bai Lan intercepted him. After capturing him, Bai Lan cut off his wings, collected his blood, and learned that he had sent Li Fen to Yin Feng Ravine, where Li Fen became a demonic cultivator.

• Bai Lan observed Ancestor Hanxu, the Third Elder, Wu Yin, and a zither-wielding cultivator battle above the ground while they restrained their power to protect the junior disciples.
• Di Wu Yin blocked Long Aotian’s escape and demanded his Storage Bags, but he revealed black wings and flew away at Foundation Establishment speed.
• Bai Lan anticipated Long Aotian’s route, waited in his path, struck him down, and chopped off his wings.
• Bai Lan collected four bottles of Long Aotian’s blood and asked what he had done to Senior Brother Li Fen.
• Long Aotian revealed that he had thrown Li Fen into Yin Feng Ravine, where Li Fen had become a demonic cultivator.
• Di Wu Yin and Long Aotian argued over their motives, while Bai Lan reflected on the unusual scene between them.

After sparing Long Aotian, Bai Lan maneuvered through the battle between the Nascent Soul cultivators and promised to escort Princess Zi Yu back to the fox clan. The two pursuing cultivators revealed they knew she had deceived the foxes and hired her to bring them Demon Luring Grass.

• Bai Lan filled four jade bottles with dragon blood, took Long Aotian's Storage Bags, and released him without killing him.
• As the Third Elder considered abandoning Zi Yu to escape, Bai Lan offered to escort the princess back to the fox clan, and the Third Elder drew the three Nascent Soul pursuers away.
• Bai Lan pretended to hold Zi Yu hostage so Hanxu Zi would pursue the Third Elder, while a female Nascent Soul cultivator noticed her and later ordered her to bring Demon Luring Grass.
• Hanxu Zi also requested Demon Luring Grass without offering Spirit Stones, and Bai Lan reassured Zi Yu that she would protect her and take her home.
• Di Wu Yin recognized Bai Lan's promise to Zi Yu as the same kind of assurance Bai Lan had once given her.