Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan recognized Bai Ling and True Lord Yunyang in Cangyuan City and planned to use the system to lure Bai Ling away so she could steal her Storage Bag. Meanwhile, Bai Ling told Yunyang she had returned to find out whether True Person Qing Xuan was truly dead, leaving Yunyang consumed by jealousy over her master and senior brothers.

• Bai Lan spotted Bai Ling's unrestricted Storage Bag and realized she and True Lord Yunyang were the disguised couple nearby.
• Bai Lan proposed having the system impersonate True Person Qing Xuan to lure Bai Ling away from Yunyang.
• Bai Ling told Yunyang she had returned to Cangyuan City to learn whether True Person Qing Xuan had really died.
• Bai Ling said she also missed her three senior brothers, and Yunyang grew jealous as he imagined them as rivals.

The system lured Bai Ling toward Cangyuan City's gates by impersonating True Person Qing Xuan, while Bai Lan alerted Hanxu Zi that Yunyang was in the city. Hanxu Zi set out to confront the Nascent Soul demonic cultivator as Bai Ling left the city with the system.

• The system drew Bai Ling's attention by copying True Person Qing Xuan's mannerisms and headed toward the city gates.
• Bai Ling feared Yunyang might harm her master, so she asked Yunyang to find lodging while she went to buy food alone.
• Yunyang gave Bai Ling a protective talisman, and she accepted it before heading out of the city.
• Bai Lan followed Bai Ling and sent Hanxu Zi a warning that a Nascent Soul demonic cultivator was in Cangyuan City.
• Hanxu Zi recalled the Azure Sect's recent loss of a Nascent Soul cultivator and angrily questioned Bai Lan about repeatedly encountering powerful enemies.
• Bai Lan persuaded Hanxu Zi that confronting Yunyang would protect the Azure Sect's reputation, and Hanxu Zi asked where Yunyang was.

The system and Bai Lan disguised themselves as Hong Ru and Ancestor Qian Ji, then confronted Bai Ling and demanded that she help free Lan Ning. Bai Ling learned that He Gui had imprisoned her former boyfriend, but refused to return to the Demonic Palace.

• The system snatched Bai Ling’s Storage Bag, revealed his changing disguises, and frightened her.
• Bai Lan transformed into Qian Ji Zi and identified himself as Ancestor Qian Ji of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Bai Lan showed Bai Ling Lan Ning’s image and told her that He Gui had imprisoned him.
• Bai Lan ordered Bai Ling to deliver Lan Ning a healing pill and inform his mother, Ghost Spirit Old Mother, so she could rescue him.
• Bai Ling refused to return to the Demonic Palace, and the system threatened her for defying the Ancestor.

Bai Lan coerced Bai Ling into helping rescue Lan Ning by threatening True Person Qing Xuan, then took phoenix blood and left Bai Ling unconscious. Meanwhile, Lan Ning learned He Gui intended to possess his body, and Bai Lan found Hanxu Zi in Cangyuan City, where he struggled to see through Yunyang’s disguise.

• Bai Lan showed Bai Ling True Person Qing Xuan’s sword and threatened his life unless Bai Ling helped rescue Lan Ning and followed her orders.
• Bai Lan had the system draw two bottles of phoenix blood from Bai Ling, then left her collapsed; a blue-robed young man found her and carried her away.
• Lan Ning realized He Gui had raised his cultivation as preparation for possessing his body if He Gui failed to reach the Divinity Transformation Stage.
• He Gui told Lan Ning he might possess his body and seek out Ghost Spirit Old Mother, while Lan Ning feared he would never escape imprisonment.
• Bai Lan returned to Cangyuan City and asked Hanxu Zi where Yunyang was; Hanxu Zi followed her pointing finger and realized he had not noticed Yunyang’s disguise.

Yunyang fled Hanxu Zi after spotting him, while Bai Lan followed and considered whether Hanxu Zi could kill Yunyang. She then discovered Bai Ling with True Lord Guangwei and approached them in disguise, preparing to deal with him.

• Yunyang, injured and unable to heal safely in righteous territory, fled when he saw Hanxu Zi, who pursued him and began fighting him outside the city.
• Bai Lan followed the two cultivators, hoping Hanxu Zi would kill Yunyang and remove a future threat to the Azure Origin Sect.
• Bai Lan lost sight of Yunyang and Hanxu Zi, sent Hanxu Zi a Sound Transmission Talisman, and continued traveling on the Azure Flood Dragon.
• Bai Lan recognized Bai Ling with a disguised True Lord Guangwei, who claimed Bai Ling had saved his life before.
• Bai Lan concealed her identity and approached the pair, but True Lord Guangwei sensed her and sent two flying blades at her.

Bai Lan revealed her identity as the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master to stop True Lord Guangwei’s attack and make him offer compensation. After learning that Guangwei pitied Bai Ling, Bai Lan claimed Bai Ling was Old Demon He Gui’s illegitimate daughter and urged him to prove his love by seeking He Gui’s approval.

• Bai Lan dodged Guangwei’s flying blades and countered with Purple Firmament True Fire, prompting him to recognize her as the Young Pavilion Master and apologize.
• Guangwei gave Bai Lan a thousand-year spirit herb, and she accepted it before warning him that Bai Ling was sought by the Demonic Palace and belonged to Old Demon He Gui.
• Bai Ling asked Bai Lan whether she knew where her master was, but Bai Lan mocked her and refused to answer.
• Guangwei pitied Bai Ling despite Bai Lan’s warning, and Bai Lan decided to manipulate his feelings by telling him Bai Ling was He Gui’s illegitimate daughter.
• Bai Lan advised Guangwei to go to the Demonic Palace, confess his feelings to He Gui, and prove his sincerity by seeking a way to restore Bai Ling’s spiritual roots.

Bai Lan persuaded True Lord Guangwei to escort Bai Ling back to the Demonic Palace, deepening their bond while Bai Ling remained unaware of the trap. After Guangwei and Bai Ling departed, Hanxu Zi told Bai Lan to meet him in Spark City for the battle against Yunyang.

• Bai Lan encouraged True Lord Guangwei to pursue a marriage alliance with Bai Ling and gave him a Sound Transmission Talisman.
• True Lord Guangwei agreed to escort Bai Ling to the Demonic Palace, and Bai Ling accepted so she could continue her plan to rescue her master.
• Bai Lan’s misleading account led True Lord Guangwei to believe Bai Ling was He Gui’s illegitimate daughter, and the two grew closer as they traveled together.
• The system watched Guangwei and Bai Ling leave, and Bai Lan told it to help manage the Spirit Taming Sect with the Artifact Spirit.
• Hanxu Zi replied to Bai Lan’s message, revealed that he was in Spark City, and summoned her to join the fight against Yunyang.

Bai Lan searched for Yunyang and led Hanxu Zi to the hiding place where they began fighting. She escaped the battlefield with a Small teleportation array and unexpectedly encountered Nan Xianshi.

• The system told Bai Lan about opportunities in Spark City, including Bai Ling's amnesiac harem member, the young master of the Nangong Family.
• Bai Lan planned to use the Nangong and Lan Families against each other, but focused on killing Yunyang first.
• Bai Lan repeatedly loaded her save while searching for Yunyang and eventually found his hidden location, but loaded back before he could attack her.
• Bai Lan pointed Hanxu Zi toward Yunyang's cave, and Hanxu Zi went to fight him.
• Bai Lan teleported away from the battle and encountered Nan Xianshi.

Bai Lan and Nan Xianshi explored a cave abode while two Nascent Soul cultivators fought outside, and Bai Lan discovered a soul inhabiting a pink skeleton. The soul tried to possess Bai Lan, but her revelation that she had Five Spirit Roots left it stunned.

• Nan Xianshi was shocked by Bai Lan's rapid cultivation and asked her to divine whether a pink skeleton in the cave abode was safe.
• Bai Lan and Nan Xianshi discussed Nan Xianshi's investigation into True Person Qing Xuan's death and the sect's troubles after Wu Yin's death.
• Bai Lan warned Nan Xianshi that Ancestor Hanxu was battling Old Demon Yunyang outside, then approached the pink skeleton despite Nan Xianshi's protests.
• Bai Lan identified the presence of a soul in the cave abode and invited it to possess her.
• The soul's pink smoke enveloped Bai Lan, but she showed a spiritual-root testing bead and declared she had Five Spirit Roots, startling the soul.

Bai Lan confronted a pink skeleton containing a remnant Nascent Soul from the Joyous Union Sect and pressured her to become a Ghost Cultivator in the Spirit Taming Sect. When the woman threatened to seize Bai Lan’s body, Bai Lan trapped her and the skeleton in the Void Stone, where the system took charge of the newcomer.

• The pink skeleton rejected Bai Lan because she had Five Spirit Roots, and Bai Lan deduced that the woman’s failed attempt to possess her had weakened her soul.
• Bai Lan connected the skeleton to the Joyous Union Sect and told the woman that Yunyang had likely been killed and the sect was about to fall apart.
• Bai Lan urged the woman to abandon body-seizing and join the Spirit Taming Sect as a Ghost Cultivator, but the woman proposed possessing Nan Xianshi instead.
• Bai Lan threatened to alert Hanxu Zi, who could refine the woman’s remnant soul, and demanded that she choose between that fate and joining the sect.
• When the woman tried to seize Bai Lan’s body, Bai Lan cast Illusory Mist to block Nan Xianshi’s view and sent the woman and skeleton into the Void Stone.
• Bai Lan ordered True Lord Cannon Fodder to take the skeleton to the cultivation room, and the system accepted the new arrival.

Bai Lan trapped the pink skeleton’s Nascent Soul remnant in her pocket realm, where the system and Artifact Spirit tried to recruit her into the Spirit Taming Sect. Outside the cave, Bai Lan pretended her soul was badly injured, and Nan Xianshi gave her a Soul Nurturing Pill before awkwardly searching for missed opportunities.

• Bai Lan’s pink skeleton shattered into fragments, which the system gathered and locked inside the stone chamber.
• The system and Artifact Spirit told the remnant soul she could join the Spirit Taming Sect or remain trapped, and she focused on their mention of a Spirit Transformation stage Guest Elder.
• Bai Lan emerged from the cave after the pink mist and pressure faded, then told Nan Xianshi she had barely defeated the remnant soul and suffered serious soul damage.
• Nan Xianshi doubted Bai Lan’s plea for help, but approached after Bai Lan pretended to write a last letter.
• Bai Lan praised Nan Xianshi as a good person, flustering her into giving Bai Lan a Soul Nurturing Pill and pretending to look for missed opportunities.

Bai Lan brought True Lord Hong Xiao to meet Miaoyunzi, the remnant-soul ancestor of the Joyous Union Sect, and persuaded her to join the Spirit Taming Sect. Miaoyunzi agreed after Bai Lan secured a wisp of her divine soul, adding another Nascent Soul-stage patriarch to Joyous Union Peak.

• Bai Lan told Miaoyunzi that she was the Sect Master of the newly established Spirit Taming Sect and revealed that many of its disciples had once belonged to the Joyous Union Sect.
• Bai Lan introduced True Lord Hong Xiao to Miaoyunzi, who first mistook her for Hong Ru and then urged her to kill Bai Lan and revive the Joyous Union Sect.
• True Lord Hong Xiao explained that she could not betray Bai Lan because the Sect Master held a wisp of her Primordial Spirit, and she described the Joyous Union Sect's current circumstances.
• Miaoyunzi refused to become a Ghost Cultivator and offered to join the Spirit Taming Sect if Bai Lan found her a suitable body.
• Bai Lan entered Miaoyunzi's stone chamber and demanded a wisp of her divine soul; Miaoyunzi gave it up rather than risk possessing Bai Lan.
• Bai Lan absorbed Miaoyunzi's divine sense and put away the finger bone that served as her temporary dwelling, making Miaoyunzi another patriarch of Joyous Union Peak.

Nan Xianshi found no treasures in the cave abode, while Bai Lan learned that Miaoyunzi’s true cave abode was in the Qiyun Mountain Range. After leaving, Bai Lan pretended to be gravely injured and fainted before Hanxu Zi could expose her.

• Nan Xianshi searched the cave abode but found only empty medicine bottles and no treasures.
• Bai Lan questioned Miaoyunzi and learned that his real cave abode lay beneath a pool in the Qiyun Mountain Range, guarded by a sixth-rank water python.
• Bai Lan and Nan Xianshi left the cave abode, with Nan Xianshi carrying Bai Lan on her back.
• Hanxu Zi saw through Bai Lan’s act of appearing injured, but Bai Lan spat out blood and fainted before he could expose her.

True Lord Guangwei escorted Bai Ling back to the Demonic Palace, where Gongsun Lian captured her and brought him before He Gui. After hearing that Guangwei intended to marry Bai Ling and become his son-in-law, He Gui’s jealousy flared, while Gongsun Lian concealed her role in setting the encounter up.

• True Lord Guangwei brought Bai Ling back to the Demonic Palace and insisted that he needed He Gui’s approval to pursue her.
• Gongsun Lian and the guards surrounded Bai Ling, knocked her unconscious, and prepared to take her to He Gui.
• True Lord Guangwei objected to Gongsun Lian’s treatment of Bai Ling, identified himself, and agreed to meet He Gui.
• Gongsun Lian told He Gui that Bai Ling had been with an unfamiliar man who called him old enough to be her father and offered to make him a father-in-law.
• He Gui’s anger grew at the thought of Bai Ling with another man, but he praised Gongsun Lian for bringing them to him.

He Gui attacked True Lord Guangwei after seeing him with Bai Ling, while Bai Lan’s scheme became clear to Guangwei. Bai Ling shielded Guangwei and threatened to die if He Gui killed him.

• Gongsun Lian fled the Demonic Palace as He Gui’s Nascent Soul pressure struck the hall and injured the guards and True Lord Guangwei.
• Bai Ling worried over Guangwei, angering He Gui, who accused him of touching her.
• He Gui severed Guangwei’s arm with a Demonic Blade, then cut off his other arm.
• Guangwei realized Bai Lan had orchestrated the confrontation, but He Gui sealed his dantian and prepared to kill him.
• Bai Ling stepped in front of Guangwei and told He Gui she would die if he killed him.

He Gui killed True Lord Guangwei and Bai Ling pretended to accept He Gui so she could continue pursuing her plan to rescue her master. Meanwhile, Gongsun Lian recruited the injured palace guards for Bai Lan’s spirit mine, and Bai Lan secretly flew toward the outer peaks to check on an unfinished opportunity.

• He Gui’s boneless worms devoured True Lord Guangwei, and Bai Ling embraced He Gui, claiming she would not run away and liked him more.
• Gongsun Lian led He Gui and Bai Ling away, then gave Soul Nurturing Pills to the injured guards and persuaded them to work at Bai Lan’s spirit mine.
• Lord Suiyun heard that Guangwei had died and considered how and where the killing had happened, noting Bai Lan had not been involved.
• After Nan Xianshi carried Bai Lan back to her cave residence, Bai Lan tricked him into leaving and flew toward the outer peaks to check whether someone had fallen.

Bai Lan arrived at the Azure Sect’s nameless formation peak and found Qi Xiaoru being attacked by the Evil Dragon Gang. After Qi Xiaoru fought back and the gang tried to leave, Bai Lan posed as a Law Enforcement Hall disciple and collected bribes from them, leaving Qi Xiaoru disillusioned.

• Bai Lan found Qi Xiaoru surrounded by Evil Dragon Gang members who demanded she hand over a supposed fortuitous opportunity.
• Qi Xiaoru fought the gang with her Golden Armor Technique but was overwhelmed and injured.
• Qi Xiaoru bit the gang leader’s hand, and the members stopped short of killing her for fear of the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Bai Lan blocked the gang’s escape and showed them her Law Enforcement Hall token.
• Bai Lan accepted Storage Bags from the gang members and offered to let them go, while the injured Qi Xiaoru watched in dismay.

Bai Lan captured the Evil Dragon Gang and helped Qi Xiaoru confront her dying brother, who offered Bai Lan Star Luo Daoist's formation inheritance in exchange for a vow to protect Xiaoru. After copying the inheritance through a save and reload, Bai Lan refused the bargain and urged him to give it directly to Qi Xiaoru instead.

• Bai Lan bound the Evil Dragon Gang cultivators and left them for the Law Enforcement Hall, while claiming the capture credit for herself.
• Bai Lan gave Qi Xiaoru Blood Recovery Pills and went with her to see her brother, whose poison had spread and cultivation had fallen to the fifth level of Qi Refining.
• Qi Xiaoru's brother revealed that he was Star Luo Daoist's inheritor and offered Bai Lan the formation inheritance if she vowed to protect Xiaoru three times.
• Bai Lan made the vow in a saved version of events, copied Star Luo Daoist's formation inheritance, then loaded her save to return to before the vow.
• Bai Lan declined the inheritance for herself and told Qi Xiaoru's brother to entrust it directly to Xiaoru.

Bai Lan persuaded Qi Xiaoru’s dying brother to entrust the formation inheritance to Xiaoru, then returned to her cave and began preparing to refine every Formation Disk in the inheritance and her collection. The System was left stunned by the scale of her plan.

• Qi Xiaoru’s brother explained why he wanted Bai Lan to protect Xiaoru instead of leaving her only formation manuals and disks, and Bai Lan promised to protect her while urging him to pass on the inheritance.
• Bai Lan swore a Heart Demon Vow that she would never kill Xiaoru for her treasures, and Xiaoru’s brother came to believe Bai Lan was genuinely loyal and righteous.
• Bai Lan left the siblings alone, deciding not to ask for a sample of the poison that had reduced the brother’s cultivation.
• Bai Lan took Star Luo Daojun’s formation diagrams and her own collection to the System, ordering it to calculate the materials needed and arrange sect missions for whatever was missing.
• Bai Lan told the System she intended to refine every Formation Disk represented by the diagrams, including all disks below the fifth rank, and the System reacted with alarm.

Bai Lan organized the materials and labor needed to complete her formation collection, but an eighth-tier Teleportation Array required a Nascent Soul refiner. After meeting Qi Xiaoru and Nan Xianshi, she began arranging help for the poor Star Luo Peak disciple.

• Bai Lan asked the system to help acquire all 437 Formation Disks, and the system recruited Luan Yin to plan the materials needed to refine them.
• Luan Yin and Hong Xiao sorted the required materials and assigned gathering missions to the opportunity-gathering teams.
• Bai Lan learned that Daoist Star Luo's large Teleportation Array was eighth-tier and decided to seek a Nascent Soul refiner through True Lord Suiyun at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• Bai Lan found Nan Xianshi comforting the grieving Qi Xiaoru, gave Qi Xiaoru talismans, and told her she did not need to remain at Bai Lan's cave abode.
• Bai Lan asked Nan Xianshi about Star Luo Peak and introduced Qi Xiaoru as an impoverished disciple who had been bullied, beginning to seek Nan's help for her.