Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan proved her talent to Old Turtle and received the Imperial Spirit Sect’s inheritance, along with the Five Flower Pill meant to repair Bai Ling’s Spirit Roots. After Old Turtle announced he would leave to seek ascension, Bai Lan tried to recruit him as a Guest Elder, and he suspected she wanted his help against powerful enemies.

• Bai Lan demonstrated the first layer of the Yunyang Blazing Flame Art, convincing Old Turtle that her talent was extraordinary.
• Old Turtle gave Bai Lan the Imperial Spirit Sect’s inheritance and asked her to rebuild the sect when she reached the Nascent Soul stage.
• Old Turtle gave Bai Lan the Five Flower Pill he had found as a possible remedy for Bai Ling’s destroyed cultivation foundation, but Bai Lan decided not to take it herself.
• Old Turtle said he would leave the secret realm to roam the four seas and seek ascension after fulfilling his old friend’s final wish.
• Bai Lan invited Old Turtle to become the rebuilt Imperial Spirit Sect’s Guest Elder and promised yearly Spirit Stones, prompting him to ask whether she wanted help eliminating powerful enemies.

Bai Lan persuaded Old Turtle to become a Guest Elder of the Imperial Spirit Sect, then arranged to lure True Lord Yunyang to the secret realm by faking Bai Ling’s kidnapping. She warned Di Wu Yin and Ning Yan that Yunyang was coming and fled with them, leaving them to believe her fabricated story about his connection to Luan Yin.

• Bai Lan convinced Old Turtle to accept the title of Guest Elder and promised to summon him when the Imperial Spirit Sect faced a catastrophe.
• Bai Lan had Li Xunxian send a panicked message to Old Demon Yunyang, then demanded one million Spirit Stones to ransom Bai Ling.
• True Lord Yunyang believed Bai Ling had been kidnapped and rushed toward the secret realm in anger.
• Bai Lan put on Bai Ling’s Storage Bag and hurried back to Di Wu Yin and Ning Yan, who had been trapped on the second stone platform for two days.
• Bai Lan warned Di Wu Yin and Ning Yan that Yunyang was coming to avenge Luan Yin, and invented a connection between the two that shocked them.

Bai Lan fled the secret realm with Ning Yan as Nascent Soul cultivator Yunyang pursued them, while Di Wu Yin hid in the main hall. When Yunyang attacked, Bai Lan timed her reloading to Qingxia’s arrival and appeared before Ning Yan with the Jade Ruyi.

• Ning Yan sent a Sound Transmission Talisman to Azure Cloud True Person after learning a Nascent Soul demonic cultivator was nearby, and Bai Lan led her toward the exit.
• Bai Lan told Di Wu Yin to hide in the secret realm’s main hall, then gave Ning Yan an umbrella-shaped defensive artifact.
• Yunyang arrived, pressured Ning Yan, and questioned Bai Lan and Ning Yan about Bai Ling’s abduction.
• Bai Lan blamed Luan Yin of the Corpse Refining Sect, but Yunyang recognized Bai Ling’s Storage Bag and grew furious.
• As Yunyang raised his finger to attack, Bai Lan reloaded repeatedly and appeared before Ning Yan with the Jade Ruyi as True Monarch Qingxia arrived.

Bai Lan and Ning Yan were saved from Yunyang by True Monarch Qingxia, who arrived in time to protect her disciple. After Yunyang left to search for Bai Ling, Qingxia offered to repay Bai Lan and invited her to recover with Ning Yan at the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Bai Lan urged Ning Yan to run, and True Monarch Qingxia appeared to block Yunyang’s attack and defend her disciple.
• Bai Lan denied Yunyang’s accusation of colluding with demonic cultivators and explained that Bai Ling had given her the Storage Bag.
• Yunyang hesitated to harm Bai Lan because of her connection to Bai Ling, then flew toward the Corpse Refining Sect to search for her.
• True Monarch Qingxia gave Bai Lan and Ning Yan Soul Nurturing Pills and treated Ning Yan’s injuries.
• After learning Bai Lan had won first place in the Five Sects Grand Competition, True Monarch Qingxia offered to repay her and invited her to return with Ning Yan to the Azure Cloud Sect.

Bai Lan arrived at Azure Cloud Sect with True Monarch Qingxia and learned that Long Aotian was hiding there while Li Qiao'er and Cheng Tianfeng clashed over their arranged marriage. She secretly gave Qiao'er a Foundation Establishment Pill for Long Aotian and offered Cheng Tianfeng a pill with hidden harmful effects, leaving him confident he could handle Long Aotian without it.

• True Monarch Qingxia took the injured Ning Yan away for treatment and directed Bai Lan to recover at the spirit spring in Azure Cloud Sect's back mountain.
• Bai Lan overheard Cheng Tianfeng threaten Li Qiao'er over their marriage contract and her relationship with Long Aotian.
• Bai Lan disguised her voice and gave Li Qiao'er a Foundation Establishment Pill, claiming it would help Long Aotian advance and win her family's approval.
• Bai Lan approached Cheng Tianfeng with a Foundation Establishment Pill carrying Extremely Yin Energy and urged him to trick Long Aotian into taking it.
• Cheng Tianfeng rejected the need for poison and boasted that a few household guards could take care of Long Aotian.

Bai Lan plotted to disguise herself as Long Aotian to provoke True Monarch Qingxia against him, while refusing to steal the Azure Cloud Sect’s Spirit Crystal Stones herself. She was caught inspecting the spring by a mysterious woman who praised her integrity.

• Bai Lan tricked Qian Tianfeng into swearing a Heart Demon Vow to kill Long Aotian within three days, then disappeared before making her own vow.
• Bai Lan found Ten-thousand-year Spirit Crystal Stones beneath a spiritual spring in the Azure Cloud Sect’s back mountain and decided not to take them.
• Bai Lan and the system planned to impersonate Long Aotian and make Ning Yan steal the crystals and reveal the sect’s secret cultivation technique, turning True Monarch Qingxia against him.
• A woman Bai Lan could not sense appeared behind her and asked whether she wanted to take some Spirit Crystal Stones.
• Bai Lan denied intending to steal anything, and the woman identified her as the principled and upright disciple her sister had described.

Bai Lan spoke with True Monarch Yunxia, who tested whether she would join the Azure Cloud Sect and warned her about Ning Yan’s association with Long Aotian. Bai Lan rewound their conversation, accepted Yunxia as her master to gain access to the sect’s Library Pavilion, and rushed there with her new disciple token.

• True Monarch Yunxia questioned Bai Lan about the Azure Cloud Sect and considered recruiting her after hearing how she had protected Ning Yan.
• Bai Lan told Yunxia that Ning Yan had been close to Long Aotian, a traitor who had murdered fellow disciples, and Yunxia vowed to deal with him.
• Yunxia asked why Bai Lan had no master, and Bai Lan explained that she had remained unclaimed out of gratitude to True Person Chang Lu.
• Bai Lan rewound their conversation and changed her answer, praising Yunxia and True Monarch Qingxia so Yunxia would take her as a disciple.
• Bai Lan became Ning Yan’s junior sister, received an Azure Cloud Sect disciple token, and hurried to the Library Pavilion.

Bai Lan studied the Azure Cloud Sect’s Earth-grade cultivation arts and devised a plan to combine Lotus Riding with the Dragon Transformation Art so she could travel on dragons. Her plans turned toward Long Aotian’s dragon-blooded harem, but the chapter ended as True Person Chang Lu of the Azure Origin Sect arrived and asked to speak with the Azure Cloud Sect’s Sect Master.

• Bai Lan and the system reviewed the Azure Cloud Sect’s low-grade cultivation arts, then she used her inner disciple status to enter the Library Pavilion’s second floor.
• Bai Lan studied the Azure Lotus True Art and learned that its Lotus Riding divine ability formed a defensive lotus for flight, though it was slower than the Wind Riding Technique.
• Bai Lan proposed combining Lotus Riding with the Dragon Transformation Art to ride dragons, and the system reminded her that she had drained Long Aotian’s blood to acquire the technique.
• Bai Lan worried that Long Aotian’s blood might support only the first level of the Dragon Transformation Art, leaving her able to ride only snakes, and threatened to meet his dragon maiden harem early.
• After studying the Earth-grade Jade Slips, Bai Lan heard True Person Chang Lu of the Azure Origin Sect ask to speak with the Azure Cloud Sect’s Sect Master.

Bai Lan avoided True Person Chang Lu by loading a save, then recovered at the Azure Cloud Sect’s spiritual spring and strengthened her cultivation. When Qian Tianfeng failed to kill Long Aotian and offered the Cheng Family’s ancestral technique instead, Bai Lan recognized the promised meeting as a trap and rejected the system’s idea of raiding the Cheng Family.

• True Person Chang Lu spotted Bai Lan at the Library Pavilion and accused her of betraying the Azure Origin Sect, so Bai Lan loaded a save to escape the confrontation.
• Bai Lan returned to the spiritual spring, cultivated, and swallowed five Soul Nurturing Pills to treat her injuries.
• Bai Lan’s divine sense advanced to late Foundation Establishment, her Formless Cultivation Method reached its fourth layer, and her cultivation rose to the second layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Bai Lan found a letter from Qian Tianfeng offering the Cheng Family’s Earth Origin Mountain Splitting Technique after he failed to kill Long Aotian within three days.
• Bai Lan deduced that Cheng Family elders had arranged the meeting at Moonlit Slope as a trap, while the system suggested using Wu Yin’s Full Power Strike Talisman to raid the Cheng Family.

Bai Lan brought Ning Yan to the Cheng Family to obtain its ancestral cultivation technique, disguising herself as the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master and making Ning Yan her maid. After preparing her entourage, Bai Lan entered the Cheng Family courtyard, leaving Ning Yan’s warning unfinished.

• Bai Lan took Ning Yan to the Cheng Family instead of Half-Moon Slope and explained that she wanted their ancestral cultivation technique because Cheng Tianfeng had made a Heart Demon Vow.
• Bai Lan revealed her Heavenly Secrets Pavilion disguise, made Ning Yan vow to keep her identity secret, and had her dress as a personal maid.
• Bai Lan summoned True Lord Cannon Fodder to serve as her guard and learned from Ning Yan that the Cheng Family’s Defense Array was inactive.
• Bai Lan leapt over the courtyard wall before Ning Yan could finish warning her to prepare more carefully, and True Lord Cannon Fodder followed.

Bai Lan infiltrated the Qian residence and confronted Qian Tianfeng and his mother after overhearing their plan to kill her. She forced them to summon the Qian Household Head and First Elder while keeping Qian Tianfeng as a hostage, then challenged him to vow to transfer the Qian family’s assets if he could kill Long Aotian within three days.

• Ning Yan followed Bai Lan and another person over the courtyard wall into the Qian residence.
• Bai Lan overheard Qian Tianfeng’s mother warn him to give Bai Lan the Jade Slip, lift his Heart Demon Vow, and let her handle the rest.
• Bai Lan revealed herself and displayed a talisman carrying a Nascent Soul cultivator’s power, forcing Qian Tianfeng’s mother to escort her to the front hall and summon the Qian Household Head and First Elder.
• Bai Lan made Qian Tianfeng stay with her as a hostage while his mother went to fetch the others.
• Bai Lan told Qian Tianfeng to make a Heart Demon Vow to transfer all the Qian family’s assets to her if he killed Long Aotian within three days, and Qian Tianfeng fell silent.

Bai Lan used a threatening talisman to secure the Qian family’s ancestral True Yang Art, then returned after studying it to ask where the method came from. The Qian Family Patriarch said his ancestor had found it in a secret realm, disappointing Bai Lan as the chapter ended.

• Qian Tianfeng began to accept Bai Lan’s offer, but the Qian Family Patriarch rushed in, scolded him, and threw him out of the hall.
• The Qian Family Patriarch tried to seize Bai Lan’s talisman, but Bai Lan evaded him and warned that the Qian family risked destruction if they used force.
• Bai Lan stopped True Lord Cannon Fodder from intervening, and the Qian Family Patriarch recognized the danger posed by her companions and her Nascent Soul-level talisman.
• Bai Lan collected the Qian family’s top-grade earth-rank True Yang Art as the wager Qian Tianfeng had lost.
• Bai Lan saved her progress, studied the method, then returned and asked the Qian Family Patriarch where it had come from.
• The Qian Family Patriarch said his ancestor had obtained the True Yang Art from a secret realm, and Bai Lan reacted with disappointment.

Bai Lan claimed that the Cheng Family’s True Yang Art came from her declining Spirit Taming Sect and persuaded the Head of the Cheng Family that the sect had powerful backing. She offered to share the sect’s heaven-rank art if he surrendered a wisp of his divine soul, leaving him wary of her real intentions.

• Bai Lan recited the True Yang Art from memory and claimed it was related to the Spirit Taming Sect’s inheritance.
• Bai Lan told the Head of the Cheng Family that the Spirit Taming Sect had a Divinity Transformation Stage patriarch and that she wanted to revive the sect.
• The Head of the Cheng Family, worried about his clan’s future, eagerly suggested that the Cheng Family might have once been a branch of the Spirit Taming Sect.
• Bai Lan reluctantly agreed to accept the Cheng Family into her sect and offered to pass on the Meteor Sun Absolute Flame Art in exchange for a wisp of his divine soul.
• The Head of the Cheng Family sensed something was wrong and began to calm down.

Bai Lan tried to secure the Cheng Family’s loyalty to the Spirit Taming Sect by offering rare resources, persuading the Cheng Family head to accept a Divine Soul Contract. She then learned that the family’s other Core Formation cultivator was his mother, who had less than a year to live, and offered a Longevity Pill to help her.

• The Cheng Family head refused Bai Lan’s proposed Divine Soul Contract, doubting her claims about the sect’s backing and resources.
• Bai Lan offered the Cheng Family a medium-sized Spirit Vein, then produced twenty-five Foundation Establishment Pills as a greeting gift for its younger generation.
• After Bai Lan stressed the benefits and protection the Spirit Taming Sect could provide, the Cheng Family head agreed to join, but she insisted that the family’s other Core Formation cultivator must also be considered.
• The Cheng Family head revealed that the other cultivator was his mother, a Mid Core Formation cultivator with less than a year to live.
• Bai Lan asked whether an extra thirty years of life might let his mother break through, and the Cheng Family head recognized that she was offering a Longevity Pill.
• Bai Lan assessed her ingredients and found that she had enough herbs for one batch of five Longevity Pills, but still lacked a small amount of medicinal catalyst.

Bai Lan secured the Cheng Family’s loyalty with contracts and cultivation resources, then arranged to pressure the Li Family over Li Wan’er’s marriage. She planned to use the resulting crisis to steer the Li Family toward joining the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Bai Lan required the Cheng Family Patriarch and his mother to swear loyalty before she gave the Cheng Family Foundation Establishment Pills and a cultivation method.
• The Cheng Family Patriarch declared Bai Lan a Guest Elder and ordered Cheng Tianfeng to prepare her room and an alchemy room.
• Bai Lan told Cheng Tianfeng to deliver a challenge to the Li Family and provoke them without fighting Long Aotian.
• Bai Lan planned to exploit the Li Family’s crisis and present joining the Azure Cloud Sect as their way forward.

Cheng Tianfeng mistook Bai Lan's plans for jealousy over Long Aotian and set out to kill him, while the Li Family grew alarmed by the Cheng Family's apparent ties to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. Inside the Void Stone, Bai Lan prepared to refine Longevity Pills, leaving Luan Yin to help set up an array and watch her work.

• Cheng Tianfeng decided Bai Lan loved Long Aotian, ordered servants to hire Foundation Establishment cultivators to kill him, and swallowed two Foundation Establishment Pills to attempt a breakthrough himself.
• The Li Family head learned that a mysterious black-robed cultivator had joined the Cheng Family and ordered Long Aotian driven out of the Li residence.
• Bai Lan entered the Void Stone to prepare for refining Longevity Pills, while Luan Yin complained about her treasures and helped set up a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Bai Lan taunted Luan Yin about his past rivalry for Bai Ling, then refined Soul Nurturing Pills before beginning her Longevity Pill preparation.

Bai Lan refined five Longevity Pills after hundreds of reloads, then explained that they could not help Luan Yin, a Ghost Cultivator. She assigned Luan Yin to hunt demonic beasts under the system’s supervision and left the alchemy room to meet the Cheng Family head and a Tribulation Crossing stage female cultivator.

• Bai Lan refined one Longevity Pill after seventy-three reloads, then perfected the process and produced five after four hundred and fifty-two reloads.
• Luan Yin learned the Longevity Pills were ineffective for Ghost Cultivators and complained about the burdens of his new existence.
• Bai Lan and the system threatened to withhold Soul Nourishing Pills unless Luan Yin accepted his new path and hunted demonic beasts for materials.
• Bai Lan sent the system to accompany Luan Yin to the mountain forest north of Hongyan City and help keep him safe.
• Bai Lan emerged from the alchemy room with the pills, confirmed her success to the waiting Cheng Family head, and turned her attention to the female cultivator behind him.

Bai Lan persuaded Lu Li and the Cheng Family to join the Spirit Taming Sect by offering a sixth-grade Longevity Pill and warning that the newly strengthened Azure Cloud Sect might target them. Lu Li accepted after Bai Lan swore to protect the Cheng Family from extinction, though Bai Lan named Long Aotian as the only person who could destroy them.

• Lu Li recognized that Bai Lan had misled the Cheng Family Head about the connection between their cultivation methods and asked what Bai Lan wanted from the family.
• Bai Lan offered Lu Li a sixth-grade Longevity Pill that would extend her life by thirty years.
• Bai Lan revealed that Azure Cloud True Person and True Lord Yun Xia had both advanced to the Nascent Soul stage and suggested the Azure Cloud Sect might seek to absorb the Cheng and Li Families.
• Lu Li weighed the risks of joining the Spirit Taming Sect against the Longevity Pill and agreed, provided Bai Lan swore to preserve the Cheng Family if the sect faced destruction.
• Bai Lan swore a Heart Demon Vow and said Long Aotian was the only person who could exterminate the Cheng Family; Lu Li asked who he was.

Long Aotian tried to use a Foundation Establishment Pill, its recipe, and his alchemy skills to make the Cheng Family end its marriage arrangement with Li Qiao'er, but Cheng Dayan refused. When Long Aotian offered a Pill for Gathering at the Apex recipe, Bai Lan appeared and demanded it, leaving Long Aotian to surrender.

• A servant told Bai Lan and Lu Li that Long Aotian had come to see the Cheng Family's Household Head, and Bai Lan ordered him admitted.
• Long Aotian offered Cheng Dayan a Foundation Establishment Pill in return for ending the marriage arrangement, but Bai Lan told Cheng Dayan to refuse it.
• Long Aotian offered the Foundation Establishment Pill recipe and a seventy-percent pill success rate as an alchemist, but Cheng Dayan rejected his terms and ordered him beaten out.
• Long Aotian revealed that he also had the Pill for Gathering at the Apex recipe, prompting Bai Lan to emerge and demand it.
• Bai Lan threatened to search Long Aotian's soul, and he agreed to hand over the recipe.

Bai Lan used a time reload to avoid confronting Long Aotian and directed the Cheng Family to drive him away. After Long Aotian left, Cheng Tianfeng emerged with a demonic foundation, having taken the poisoned Foundation Establishment Pill intended for Long Aotian.

• Bai Lan checked Long Aotian’s pill formula for the Pill for Gathering at the Apex, then reloaded to the moment he revealed it.
• Bai Lan secretly told the Cheng Family head that the Spirit Taming Sect also had the formula, and he ordered his servants to beat Long Aotian out.
• Long Aotian threatened the Cheng Family, but the head repeated Bai Lan’s warning that the family would become too powerful for him to provoke.
• Bai Lan promised the Cheng Family head pills and resources for his loyalty, then accompanied him to Cheng Tianfeng’s residence after hearing a scream.
• Cheng Tianfeng revealed that he had established a foundation after swallowing two pills, one of which contained Yin Sha Qi and left him with a demonic foundation.
• Bai Lan explained that Cheng Tianfeng had taken the poisoned pill prepared for Long Aotian and asked whether he had taken the disaster in Long Aotian’s place because he loved him.