Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan told Cheng Tianfeng that his poisoned demonic foundation left him with few prospects, then found a possible path for him in the Myriad Poisons Sect. She gave him a map to find a stranded elder whose fate was tied to Bai Ling.

• Cheng Dayan begged Bai Lan to find Cheng Tianfeng a path forward and forced his son to kowtow to her.
• Bai Lan explained that the pill she had prepared for Long Aotian contained Yin Sha Qi and strange poisons, leaving Cheng Tianfeng's meridians tainted and his spiritual power sluggish.
• Bai Lan searched the Child of Destiny's demonic-path opportunities and found a Myriad Poisons Sect elder trapped in a secret realm, whom Bai Ling would later rescue and win over.
• Bai Lan demanded a strand of Cheng Tianfeng's divine soul, and Cheng Dayan pressured him into handing it over.
• Bai Lan gave Cheng Tianfeng a map and told him to find the elder if he wanted a chance at a promising future.

Bai Lan arranged for Cheng Tianfeng to seek a poisoned Nascent Soul cultivator and coordinated with the Cheng Family to pressure the Li Family into joining the Azure Cloud Sect. She enlisted Ning Yan to help frame Long Aotian, while Long Aotian fled with Li Qiao'er and prepared to settle one last matter.

• Bai Lan sent Cheng Tianfeng to a secret realm to rescue Leng Qinghan and become his disciple, while Qian Daye agreed to help pressure the Li Family.
• Bai Lan promised Qian Daye that she would handle the Azure Cloud Sect and help the Cheng Family gain control in Hongyan City.
• Long Aotian took Li Qiao'er to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion after she received an ultimatum to marry, saying he had one final matter to settle before they left Hongyan City.
• As the Li Family searched for Li Qiao'er and the Cheng Family arrived to threaten them, Bai Lan told Ning Yan she planned to bring the Li Family into the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Bai Lan asked Ning Yan to pretend she loved Long Aotian and was willing to become his cauldron, and Ning Yan agreed to follow the plan before True Monarch Qingxia.
• Bai Lan gave Ning Yan her lines and headed to the Li Family.

Qian Daye and Lu Li attacked the Li Family Head over Li Qiao'er’s broken betrothal, claiming Qian Tianfeng had gone missing after falling into the demonic path. Bai Lan intervened and won a brief pause in the battle to speak with the Li Family Head.

• Qian Daye and Lu Li demanded that the Li Family Head hand over Li Qiao'er, while she said Qiao'er had eloped with Long Aotian and remained missing.
• Lu Li and Qian Daye attacked the Li Family Head together, forcing her to defend herself against their coordinated strikes.
• Bai Lan arrived and asked the three seniors to pause and hear her out.
• Qian Daye and Lu Li stopped fighting and gave Bai Lan one incense stick's time to speak with the Li Family Head.

Bai Lan persuaded the Li Family Head to join the Azure Cloud Sect, saving the Li Family from the Cheng Family while securing the Head’s promise to assist her three times. Meanwhile, Long Aotian hid in the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and agreed to work as an alchemist, as Ning Yan suddenly declared her love for him before True Monarch Qingxia and True Monarch Yunxia investigated her condition.

• Bai Lan first obtained and studied the Li Family’s Life Breath Art, then reloaded her save and instead asked the Li Family Head to vow to assist her unconditionally three times.
• Bai Lan explained the Azure Cloud Sect’s strength and plan to the Li Family Head, who accepted the sect’s token and agreed to join.
• Cheng Dayan and Lu Li saw the token, abandoned their attack, and left with the Cheng Family.
• Long Aotian hid with Ling Qiao'er in the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, agreed to work there as an alchemist, and vowed to take revenge on the Cheng Family and Bai Lan.
• Ning Yan clung to True Monarch Qingxia and insisted she would marry only Long Aotian, prompting True Monarch Yunxia to suspect a wicked art or Charm Technique and True Monarch Qingxia to examine her with divine sense.

True Monarch Qingxia discovered that Ning Yan had been bewitched by Long Aotian and sealed her cultivation to stop her from pursuing his furnace art. When the Ling Family head reported that Ling Qiao'er showed the same symptoms, Qingxia learned that Long Aotian’s influence might extend beyond Ning Yan, while Bai Lan explained her plan to help the Azure Cloud Sect secure a Lineage.

• True Monarch Qingxia questioned Ning Yan, who insisted she wanted to cultivate Long Aotian’s Golden Cauldron Spirit Accumulation Art and marry him.
• True Monarch Qingxia and True Monarch Yunxia concluded that Long Aotian had bewitched Ning Yan, and Yunxia left to investigate him as Qingxia sealed Ning Yan’s meridians and dantian.
• Bai Lan and the Ling Family head heard that the Azure Cloud Sect had issued a Heaven-grade Kill Order against Long Aotian.
• The Ling Family head told True Monarch Qingxia that Ling Qiao’er had also begun insisting she would marry Long Aotian, and Qingxia recognized the similarity to Ning Yan’s condition.
• Bai Lan explained to True Monarch Qingxia how she had devised a plan to help the Azure Cloud Sect contend for a Lineage.

Bai Lan and Ning Yan carried out their plan to steal spirit materials from the Azure Cloud Sect, while Bai Lan disguised herself as Long Aotian to draw True Monarch Qingxia away. Bai Lan escaped toward Hongyan City and used Xue'er’s voice to lure Long Aotian outside, leaving True Monarch Qingxia in pursuit.

• Bai Lan left True Monarch Qingxia and joined Ning Yan at her cave residence, where they agreed to proceed with their plan.
• Bai Lan disguised herself as Long Aotian, and she and Ning Yan took a thousand-year crystal stone from the back mountain spirit spring and demanded spirit herbs from the sect garden.
• The spirit herb garden disciple reported them, and True Monarch Qingxia learned that Long Aotian was in Azure Cloud Valley and flew after them.
• Ning Yan pretended to protect Long Aotian, but Bai Lan pushed her aside and fled on a green lotus, prompting True Monarch Qingxia to pursue her toward Hongyan City.
• Bai Lan used a disguised voice and Xue'er’s Sound Transmission Talisman to summon Long Aotian outside Hongyan City, then hid in the Void Stone as he rushed to meet Xue'er.

Bai Lan hid in the Void Stone to escape True Monarch Qingxia, while Qingxia lost the divine soul mark and pursued Long Aotian to Hongyan City. Qingxia found Long Aotian outside the city and struck at him, leaving him unable to move as he tried to summon his master.

• Bai Lan escaped into the Void Stone instead of using the Small teleportation array, then replenished her spiritual energy while discussing the Spirit Taming Sect’s reconstruction with the Artifact Spirit.
• Bai Lan decided to stay inside the Void Stone after noting that True Monarch Qingxia had marked her with a divine soul mark.
• True Monarch Qingxia failed to sense the mark and guessed that Long Aotian would flee through Hongyan City’s large Teleportation Array.
• Long Aotian waited outside Hongyan City for Xue'er while wearing a mask that blocked divine sense probing.
• True Monarch Qingxia recognized Long Aotian, removed his mask, and struck at his head as he tried to call his master for help.

True Monarch Qingxia nearly killed Long Aotian while trying to learn how he had bewitched Ning Yan, but a Myriad Treasures Pavilion elder intervened and took him away with Hong Gu. Three days later, Bai Lan learned Long Aotian had survived and gone to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, so she set out to visit him.

• True Monarch Qingxia pressured Long Aotian for answers, shattered his meridians, and left him near death when he denied knowing Ning Yan.
• A Nascent Soul elder from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion confronted True Monarch Qingxia, while Hong Gu pleaded for Long Aotian’s life.
• The elder offered True Monarch Qingxia a Clear Essence Fruit to cure Ning Yan, and she accepted it while secretly deciding Long Aotian remained a threat.
• True Monarch Qingxia discovered a Spirit Transformation stage remnant soul in Long Aotian’s sea of consciousness and left as Hong Gu carried him away.
• Three days later, Bai Lan heard that Long Aotian had survived and become the Myriad Treasures Pavilion auctioneer’s family’s live-in son-in-law, then headed to the pavilion to see him.

Bai Lan went to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion posing as Li Xunxian’s junior, but a suspicious Nascent Soul cultivator forced her to retreat and ask Li Xunxian about him. Li Xunxian revealed Qian Ji Zi’s connection to her and described his beloved granddaughter, Hong Ru, leaving Bai Lan to consider what else she could learn.

• Bai Lan presented Li Xunxian’s token at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and claimed she had come to inquire about her missing aunt and collect her unpaid salary.
• A suspicious old man called Qian Ji Zi released Nascent Soul pressure, so Bai Lan reloaded her save and contacted Li Xunxian before entering the pavilion.
• Li Xunxian explained that Qian Ji Zi had planted a Heart Devouring Gu in her and used her as a Guest Elder to infiltrate the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• Li Xunxian told Bai Lan that Qian Ji Zi treasured his granddaughter Hong Ru, who served as a steward in the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Li Xunxian guessed Bai Lan had tried and failed to capture Hong Ru, then asked whether Bai Lan had anything else to ask.

Bai Lan learned that Joyous Union Sect cultivators had suffered heavy losses exploring the Spirit Taming Sect's secret realm, then used Li Xunxian's identity to gain Qian Ji Zi's protection and a place in the Myriad Treasures Pavilion. She confronted Long Aotian at his room and threatened to reveal his other lovers to Hong Ru.

• Li Xunxian told Bai Lan that the secret realm's restrictions had helped her kill or injure many Joyous Union Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators, while Di Wu Yin stayed in the Library Pavilion.
• Bai Lan met Qian Ji Zi, claimed to be Li Xunxian's niece, and learned that Li Xunxian's soul lamp was still lit but her whereabouts were unknown.
• Qian Ji Zi let Bai Lan stay at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and offered her Guest Elder-like treatment, secretly intending to control her with a Heart Devouring Gu.
• Bai Lan asked an attendant about Long Aotian, and Hong Ru angrily dismissed the attendant for insulting him.
• Bai Lan found Long Aotian and threatened to tell Hong Ru that he had numerous other lovers.

Bai Lan forced Long Aotian to hand over his Storage Bag by threatening to expose the Pill for Gathering at the Apex formula and the sleeping Divinity Transformation Stage soul in his sea of consciousness. She then planned to search Mist Cloud Continent’s spirit veins for his hidden cave abode and began arranging to establish the Spirit Taming Sect inside the Void Stone, leaving for the Azure Cloud Sect as Gongsun Lian complained about the Demonic Palace.

• Bai Lan threatened to tell Qian Ji Zi about Long Aotian’s pill formula and sleeping remnant soul, so Long Aotian gave her his Storage Bag.
• Bai Lan searched Long Aotian for another Storage Bag, suspected he had a hidden cave abode, and sent Gongsun Lian, Luan Yin, and Di Wu Yin to investigate three small spirit veins.
• Bai Lan planned to move the spirit veins into the Void Stone and build the Spirit Taming Sect there, where she could control access and protect its cultivators.
• Luan Yin and Di Wu Yin acknowledged Bai Lan’s orders, while Gongsun Lian sent a string of complaints about He Gui and the Demonic Palace.
• Bai Lan flew toward the Azure Cloud Sect, intending to bid farewell to Qingxia and True Monarch Yunxia.

Bai Lan sent Gongsun Lian to persuade True Lord Hong Xiao to leave the Demonic Palace, offering her a technique that could regrow her severed arm and the promise of an Apex Tribulation. After Hong Xiao reflected on He Gui’s abuse of power and her bleak prospects, Gongsun Lian arrived at her cave residence with the promised technique.

• Gongsun Lian told Bai Lan that He Gui had severed True Lord Hong Xiao’s arm after she spoke harshly to Bai Ling, and Bai Lan urged her to recruit Hong Xiao.
• Bai Lan taught Gongsun Lian the first three layers of the Life-Breathing Technique and suggested combining it with puppet arts to make regenerating puppets.
• Gongsun Lian went to Hong Xiao’s cave residence, where Hong Xiao and her disciple Danzhu discussed He Gui’s attack and Hong Xiao’s lack of options.
• Danzhu proposed assassinating Bai Ling and seeking Ancestor Yunyang’s help, but Hong Xiao explained that He Gui protected Bai Ling and kept his feelings for her secret.
• Gongsun Lian offered Hong Xiao a technique that could regrow her arm, and Hong Xiao told Danzhu to let her inside.

Gongsun Lian tried to recruit True Lord Hong Xiao into the Spirit Taming Sect, revealing a plot against the Demonic Palace and offering a technique that could regenerate severed limbs. Hong Xiao remained wary but was shaken by Gongsun Lian’s warning about Bai Ling and received the first layer of the technique to consider.

• Gongsun Lian entered True Lord Hong Xiao’s cave dwelling and claimed Bai Lan’s master intended to replace the Demonic Palace as the foremost force of the Demonic Path.
• Gongsun Lian revealed that Ancestor Chiyue had fewer than ten years to live and claimed the Spirit Taming Sect’s sect master would interfere with his tribulation.
• Gongsun Lian offered Hong Xiao the Life Resurgence Technique and a future Pill for Gathering at the Apex if she joined the Spirit Taming Sect.
• Gongsun Lian warned that Bai Ling’s favor with He Gui and Yunyang could put Hong Xiao’s life at risk, stirring Hong Xiao’s anger over her forced apology to Bai Ling.
• Gongsun Lian left a Jade Slip containing the technique’s first layer for Hong Xiao and gave Danzhu a bottle of pills before departing.

Gongsun Lian manipulated Bai Ling and Hong Xiao into turning against He Gui, then led Hong Xiao and her followers toward the Spirit Taming Sect. The chapter left them heading to Yin Feng Ravine, where Bai Lan, Li Xunxian, and Di Wu Yin were moving the sect’s ruins into the Void Stone.

• True Lord Hong Xiao and Danzhu recognized the value of Gongsun Lian’s Life Resurgence Technique and Youth Preserving Pill, and Hong Xiao began considering leaving the Demonic Palace.
• Gongsun Lian falsely told Bai Ling that Hong Xiao had threatened to kill her and encouraged her to strike first by seeking help from He Gui or Ancestor Yunyang.
• Bai Ling admitted that she hated He Gui for taking A-Ning and separating her from her master, and He Gui overheard her confession.
• Hong Xiao learned that He Gui had promised to kill her for Bai Ling, so she accepted Gongsun Lian’s offer and demanded to meet the Spirit Taming Sect’s sect master.
• Gongsun Lian led Hong Xiao, Danzhu, and Hong Xiao’s other disciples toward Yin Feng Ravine, where Bai Lan, Li Xunxian, and Di Wu Yin were moving the Spirit Taming Sect’s ruins into the Void Stone.

Bai Lan studied the Spirit Taming Sect’s lost cultivation arts and tested a Buddhist Heart Sutra that revealed disguises and dark qi. Meanwhile, He Gui tried to break Bai Ling’s spirit with news of True Person Qing Xuan’s death, but an urgent report said True Lord Hong Xiao had escaped the Demonic Palace after Bai Lan lost track of him.

• Bai Lan studied the Spirit Taming Sect Library Pavilion and found the fragmentary Heavenly Tier Broad-Eyed Wonderful Dharma Heart Sutra.
• Bai Lan used the Heart Sutra to see through Ling Xunxian’s disguise and noticed dark qi surrounding them both.
• Ling Xunxian finished moving the Spirit Taming Sect ruins into the Void Stone, leaving the secret realm empty.
• He Gui told Bai Ling that True Person Qing Xuan had died, and Bai Ling rejected him in grief.
• A Foundation Establishment steward reported that True Lord Hong Xiao had escaped the Demonic Palace after Bai Lan lost track of him.

Bai Lan rescued Hong Xiao from the Demonic Palace by bringing her and the others into the Void Stone after Hong Xiao agreed to join the Spirit Taming Sect. He Gui found only Purple Firmament True Fire outside and suspected that Suiyun was injured, leaving him eager to exploit the opportunity.

• He Gui left the Demonic Palace to pursue Hong Xiao after learning she had escaped.
• Gongsun Lian led Hong Xiao to Bai Lan, whose Foundation Establishment cultivation made Hong Xiao doubt she could protect them from He Gui.
• Bai Lan offered Hong Xiao safety in exchange for a wisp of her divine soul, and Hong Xiao agreed to join the Spirit Taming Sect.
• Bai Lan brought Hong Xiao and the others into the Void Stone, then spread Purple Firmament True Fire outside to suggest that Suiyun had been there.
• He Gui found the purple flames, judged them too weak to have been made by a late Nascent Soul cultivator, and suspected that Suiyun was injured.

Bai Lan hid with True Lord Hong Xiao inside the Void Stone while He Gui searched for them, then decided to cultivate in seclusion. Meanwhile, the system and Luan Yin found Long Aotian’s cave residence and began breaking its formation, and Bai Lan turned her attention to True Lord Hong Xiao.

• He Gui killed two fleeing Qi Refining disciples with Yin Ghosts, then searched the area for True Lord Suiyun.
• True Lord Hong Xiao sensed the disciples’ soul lamps go out, but Bai Lan stayed hidden in the Void Stone until He Gui’s search ended.
• Bai Lan planned to cultivate in seclusion and study her newly acquired techniques and abilities.
• The system and Luan Yin found Long Aotian’s cave residence and began breaking its third-rank formation, with the system disguising itself as Bai Lan to reassure Luan Yin.
• After communicating with the system, Bai Lan greeted True Lord Hong Xiao, who silently acknowledged her.

Bai Lan recruited True Lord Hong Xiao and her former Joyous Union Sect cultivators into the Spirit Taming Sect, then put them to work rebuilding its ruins. Gongsun Lian negotiated a new assignment from Bai Lan and left eager to retrieve a Mid-grade Spirit Vein in demonic territory.

• Bai Lan told True Lord Hong Xiao and Di Wu Yin that they were fellow disciples again, and Di Wu Yin reassured Hong Xiao that their lives were safe for now.
• Bai Lan required Hong Xiao's group to hand over a wisp of divine soul and vow to fight Long Aotian and Bai Ling; Hong Xiao became peak master of Joyous Union Peak.
• Bai Lan revealed that the Spirit Taming Sect had only recently acquired its inheritance, while its Ninth Tier divine beast, the Black Tortoise, served as a Guest Elder.
• The Artifact Spirit led Hong Xiao to begin rebuilding the sect from the floating ruins and blueprints.
• Gongsun Lian asked Bai Lan for recognition, and Bai Lan gave her a map to a Mid-grade Spirit Vein in demonic territory; Gongsun Lian agreed to pursue it.

Bai Lan learned that the Joyous Union Sect planned to relocate in three months, with three Nascent Soul Cultivators guarding its spirit vein, and began plotting to claim the sect’s territory and formation. She planned to use Hong Xiao’s position to help, while Gongsun Lian refused to risk running into He Gui.

• Gongsun Lian told Bai Lan that Old Demon Yunyang and two other Nascent Soul Cultivators had returned to the Joyous Union Sect to excavate its spirit vein before the sect relocated.
• Bai Lan reflected that Yunyang’s romance with Bai Ling had been disrupted, leaving him unable to compete with He Gui for her.
• Bai Lan reasoned that He Gui would conceal his failed attempt to kill Hong Xiao and that Yunyang might not know Hong Xiao had betrayed the demonic path.
• Bai Lan planned to have Hong Xiao pose as a Joyous Union Sect elder, assist with the relocation, and help her take the territory and possibly the sect-protecting grand formation.
• Gongsun Lian asked when she could leave, and Bai Lan urged her to check whether He Gui was outside; Gongsun Lian fled and refused to risk encountering him.

Bai Lan cultivated with ten-thousand-year Stone Milkwort, broke through to mid-Foundation Establishment, and developed a faster Serpent Riding technique. After her breakthrough, her summoned serpent began transforming into a flood dragon.

• Bai Lan drank refined Stone Milkwort spiritual liquid and broke through to the third layer of Foundation Establishment, then repeatedly consumed more despite True Lord Hong Xiao's alarm.
• The Artifact Spirit told True Lord Hong Xiao that Bai Lan had Five Spirit Roots, and Hong Xiao marveled that she had reached Foundation Establishment with such aptitude.
• Bai Lan spent two months refining spiritual liquid and practicing techniques, while Long Aotian's blood helped her summon a serpent through the first layer of the Dragon Transformation Art.
• Bai Lan combined the Dragon Transformation Art with the Azure Cloud Sect's Lotus Riding technique to create Serpent Riding, whose speed rivaled an ordinary early Core Formation cultivator's escape light.
• Bai Lan broke through to the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment and summoned her serpent, which began developing scales and spines as it transformed into a flood dragon.