Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan secured Nan Xianshi’s protection for Qi Xiaoru by giving her Divine Beast Phoenix bones and asking her to watch for True Person Qing Xuan’s possible reincarnation. Qi Xiaoru revealed that Ghost Spirit Old Mother’s people had poisoned her brother, leaving Bai Lan considering how to obtain the poison through Lan Ning.

• Nan Xianshi agreed to protect Qi Xiaoru in exchange for learning what kind of meat Bai Lan had served her.
• Bai Lan revealed that the chicken leg had been divine beast meat and gave Nan Xianshi Phoenix bones to make soup.
• Bai Lan asked Nan Xianshi to look for talented young sword cultivators resembling True Person Qing Xuan and gave her a Disguise Pill to help investigate.
• Nan Xianshi gave Qi Xiaoru a Sound Transmission Talisman and promised to help if anyone bullied her.
• Bai Lan asked Qi Xiaoru about her brother’s enemy, and Qi Xiaoru said the poison in his body came from Ghost Spirit Old Mother of the Demonic Palace.
• Bai Lan resolved that Qi Xiaoru should focus on cultivating and considered obtaining poison through Lan Ning.

Bai Lan advised Qi Xiaoru on seeking Nan Xianshi’s protection while monitoring Bai Ling’s infiltration of the Demonic Palace. True Person Chang Lu thanked Bai Lan for helping him find Li Fen, then revealed that Li Fen’s ruined cultivation foundation had led him to consider sending his disciple to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to cultivate demonic arts.

• Qi Xiaoru vowed to avenge her brother, and Bai Lan urged her to seek Nan Xianshi’s protection and avoid prolonged trips outside the sect as war approached.
• Bai Lan noticed that the Mother Gu had connected with its Child Gu, confirming that Bai Ling had successfully delivered Lan Ning the restorative pill.
• True Person Chang Lu arrived to thank Bai Lan for telling him where Li Fen was trapped and said he had rescued his disciple from the demonic path.
• True Person Chang Lu explained that Long Aotian had destroyed Li Fen’s meridians and cultivation foundation, so he planned to send Li Fen to the demonic path to cultivate demonic arts.
• Bai Lan realized that True Person Chang Lu intended to send Li Fen to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.

Bai Lan learned about Mortal Tribulation from True Person Chang Lu and decided to experience a mortal life to temper her state of mind. Her first attempt at tribulation spiraled from becoming a physician into a rebellion, and she prepared to use Daoist talismans despite the restrictions on immortal arts.

• True Person Chang Lu explained Mortal Tribulation to Bai Lan and asked her to support Ling Fen, giving her two Storage Bags in return for her help.
• Bai Lan decided to undergo tribulation in the mortal world and chose a meritorious married couple as the parents for her mortal life.
• Bai Lan was born as a twin and resolved to become a physician, but her conservative parents opposed her plans, so she left home to travel as a wandering physician.
• Bai Lan killed several oppressive figures, was wanted by the authorities, and concluded that the emperor was unjust.
• Bai Lan raised an insurgent army and prepared to use lightning and Fire Talismans, reasoning that Daoist arts were not forbidden.

Bai Lan used gunpowder, talismans, and her military skill to lead a rebellion that toppled the old dynasty and united the realm. With her Dao heart stable and the people behind her, she took the throne as the first empress of her new dynasty.

• Bai Lan made gunpowder and recruited the system as her adviser, declaring that she would unite the world during her tribulation crossing.
• Bai Lan raised a rebel army, used talismans to create thunder that bolstered her soldiers, and captured cities across the realm.
• Bai Lan killed a trusted general who accepted a bribe and tried to assassinate her in the third year of the rebellion.
• Bai Lan rejected the emperor's offer to divide the realm after the court failed to defeat her army.
• Ten years and three months after raising her army, Bai Lan led her troops into the capital, where the emperor surrendered and the old dynasty fell.
• Bai Lan donned the imperial robe and took the dragon throne, becoming Your Majesty.

Bai Lan passed her Mortal Tribulation after living a century as an empress, then loaded a save to sever her mortal attachments and return to the past. Back in the cultivation world, she and the system reviewed Long Aotian and Bai Ling’s progress and prepared to pursue Bai Ling’s spiritual fruit.

• Bai Lan and True Lord Cannon Fodder reformed the realm, but after seven or eight years Bai Lan quit as emperor and became the Retired Emperor.
• Over the following decades, Bai Lan watched her companions die and sorrowed over leaving the dynasty she had founded, then realized she had to let go of her mortal attachments to pass her tribulation.
• Bai Lan loaded a save, rewinding time to before her rebirth, and the system agreed to seal the memories of their hundred-year journey.
• The system reported that Long Aotian had reached the late Tribulation Crossing stage and Bai Ling had repaired her spiritual roots and reached the Tribulation Crossing stage while both searched for Bai Lan.
• Bai Lan learned that Bai Ling had found a spiritual fruit that granted her spiritual roots and set out with the system to claim it.
• The system reported that Nan Xianshi had died while traveling and Qiu Tian had been refined into a Corpse Puppet; Bai Lan marked both periods for attention.

After returning from her completed Mortal Tribulation, Bai Lan took control of a spiritual fruit that could restore spiritual roots and traveled to Tiandu City to reach True Lord Suiyun. There, she heard that Lan Jinyu had become a Foundation Establishment cultivator and the new young master of the Lan Family.

• Bai Lan returned to the Azure Origin Sect after loading her save, leaving Miaoyunzi puzzled about her sudden change in state of mind.
• Bai Lan found the sixth-rank spiritual fruit at the bottom of the abyss and transplanted its spring and tree into the Void Stone.
• Bai Lan rode the Azure Flood Dragon to a city and used the Myriad Treasures Pavilion's large-scale Teleportation Array to return to Tiandu City.
• Bai Lan sent Lan Jinyu a Sound Transmission Talisman and waited in a tavern, where a waiter told her Lan Jinyu had become a Foundation Establishment cultivator and the new young master of the Lan Family.
• Lan Jinyu arrived after receiving Bai Lan's message and worried whether her recent conduct had satisfied the ancestor.

Bai Lan met with Lan Jinyu and ordered her to find Lin Mietian and place spies around him, while reassuring her of her trust and praising her progress. Di Wu Yin arrived with Long Aotian’s Storage Bag, which Bai Lan had requested to inspect personally.

• Lan Jinyu hesitated outside the tavern as Bai Lan learned that the Lan Family head opposed her succession and wanted his youngest son to take her place.
• Bai Lan asked Lan Jinyu to find Lin Mietian, a collateral descendant of the Lin Family, and plant spies around him; Lan Jinyu agreed after learning he was considered an insignificant young master.
• Bai Lan considered ways to monitor Lin Mietian and prepare for Long Aotian’s possible rebirth, including placing her own people around them.
• Bai Lan praised Lan Jinyu as the person she trusted most, moving Lan Jinyu deeply as Di Wu Yin entered and recognized Bai Lan’s familiar reassurances.
• Lan Jinyu explained that Di Wu Yin could become a Guest Elder after reaching Core Formation, and Di Wu Yin handed Bai Lan Long Aotian’s Storage Bag for her personal inspection.

Bai Lan arranged to take Di Wu Yin to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and discovered Long Aotian’s Elderly Grandfather’s remnant soul inside a piece of Soul Nurturing Wood. After restoring the soul with Soul Nurturing Pills, she woke him, and he recognized her immediately.

• Bai Lan gave Lan Jinyu a list of Cangwu Continent materials to gather and told her to prepare ten portions of each within half a month.
• Bai Lan told Di Wu Yin to prepare to join the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion with her the next day, and Di Wu Yin reluctantly agreed.
• Bai Lan found a piece of Soul Nurturing Wood in Long Aotian’s Storage Bag and learned from Miaoyun that it contained a powerful remnant soul.
• Bai Lan fed the Soul Nurturing Wood three bottles of Soul Nurturing Pills until Long Aotian’s Elderly Grandfather awakened.
• Long Aotian’s Elderly Grandfather spoke from the Soul Nurturing Wood and said he had expected Bai Lan to be the first person he saw.

Bai Lan confronted the Elderly Grandfather about joining her side and demanded proof of his loyalty. She imprisoned him in a Soul Suppressing Stone chamber and gave him Soul Nurturing Pills, leaving him to recover before surrendering part of his divine soul.

• The Elderly Grandfather explained that he had entered Long Aotian's Storage Bag to find Bai Lan, and Bai Lan accused him of abandoning darkness for the light.
• Miaoyun and the Elderly Grandfather bickered after Bai Lan introduced them as colleagues.
• Bai Lan demanded that the Elderly Grandfather hand over a strand of his divine soul to prove he was not deceiving her.
• Bai Lan moved the Soul Nurturing Wood and the Elderly Grandfather into a chamber lined with Soul Suppressing Stones, then supplied him with Soul Nurturing Pills.
• The Elderly Grandfather asked why Bai Lan had imprisoned him, and she reminded him that he had urged Long Aotian to threaten her through her blood relatives.

Bai Lan persuaded Elder Fu to abandon Long Aotian and bind himself to her in exchange for the promise of a reshaped physical body. After securing his divine soul, she demanded that he record every cultivation method and divine ability he had taught Long Aotian.

• Elder Fu considered killing Bai Lan after regaining strength from Soul Nurturing Pills, but realized she had already imprisoned him in the Soul Suppressing Stone.
• Bai Lan revealed that Elder Fu had once been a Spirit Transformation cultivator whose body was destroyed by a lightning tribulation, and explained that she had spared Long Aotian to benefit from his good fortune.
• Elder Fu agreed to join Bai Lan, and she took three wisps of his divine soul to bind him to her.
• Bai Lan summoned Luan Yin to bring crates of Jade Slips so Elder Fu could record the Heavenly Tier Cultivation Methods and earth-tier divine abilities he knew.
• Elder Fu suspected Bai Lan had robbed a Library Pavilion, while Bai Lan told him to request more Jade Slips if needed.

Bai Lan had Elder Fu and Miaoyunzi record their cultivation methods and divine abilities before confronting the Lan Family head over his treatment of Lan Jinyu. After Bai Lan used her Azure Origin Sect identity to defuse the dispute, she urged Lan Jinyu to claim the family-head position and promised to help restore the Lan Family's former glory.

• Bai Lan offered Elder Fu a choice between teaching Qi Induction children and returning to Long Aotian, prompting him to volunteer to teach the children.
• Bai Lan realized Miaoyunzi also possessed valuable inheritances and ordered her to record her methods and divine abilities on Jade Slips.
• The Lan Family head questioned Lan Jinyu for sheltering outsiders, and Bai Lan emerged in Azure Origin Sect robes to defend her presence.
• The Lan Family head changed his tone after learning Bai Lan's identity and left, while Lan Jinyu apologized to Bai Lan.
• Bai Lan told Lan Jinyu to seize the family-head position and promised to help the Lan Family become Cangwu Continent's foremost family.

Bai Lan left the Lan Family for Hidden Dragon Abyss and questioned Elder Fu about protecting her from True Lord Suiyun, her adoptive mother and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master. Elder Fu doubted Suiyun would harm her, but explained why powerful Nascent Soul cultivators might seek a body to possess.

• Bai Lan promised Lan Jinyu she would help her seize the Lan Family Head position within three years, then left after gathering formation materials.
• Bai Lan asked Elder Fu and Miaoyunzi whether they could keep her from being exposed before a late Nascent Soul cultivator, and Elder Fu boasted about his former Spirit Transformation power.
• Bai Lan revealed that she was going to meet True Lord Suiyun, her adoptive mother, and asked Elder Fu to protect her.
• Elder Fu questioned why Bai Lan distrusted Suiyun and argued that a Nascent Soul cultivator had little reason to attack a Foundation Establishment junior unless she knew about the Void Stone.
• Elder Fu explained that late Nascent Soul cultivators sometimes raised talented people as spare bodies for possession if they failed their tribulation.

Bai Lan visited the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion headquarters and discovered that a powerful presence was watching her from the depths of Hidden Dragon Abyss. At the Lightning Pool, True Lord Suiyun threw her in, but Bai Lan used a save and then jumped in willingly to preserve her dignity.

• Bai Lan consulted Elder Fu about True Lord Suiyun and went to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion headquarters in her Young Pavilion Master robes.
• Elder Fu sensed a hostile presence as Bai Lan entered Hidden Dragon Abyss and traced it to the abyss's bottom; they suspected it was a dragon connected to Bai Lan's use of Long Aotian's blood.
• A Heavenly Secrets Pavilion cultivator led Bai Lan to the Lightning Pool, where she found True Lord Suiyun soaking and cast a divination that warned of danger but promised an auspicious outcome.
• True Lord Suiyun accused Bai Lan of causing trouble and threw her toward the Lightning Pool, but Bai Lan loaded a save before falling.
• Bai Lan jumped into the Lightning Pool herself, surprising True Lord Suiyun.

Bai Lan endured the Lightning Pool while True Lord Suiyun questioned her about True Lord Guangwei’s death and warned that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion might one day fall to her. The chapter left Bai Lan using Guangwei’s insult about her aptitude to test Suiyun’s reaction.

• Bai Lan jumped into the Lightning Pool and struggled through its pain as True Lord Suiyun watched.
• True Lord Suiyun asked Bai Lan about True Lord Guangwei’s death in the Demonic Palace and the karmic connection to her.
• Bai Lan denied knowing how Guangwei died and offered to investigate the Demonic Palace on Mist Cloud Continent.
• True Lord Suiyun said she might entrust the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to Bai Lan while she pursued Spirit Transformation, then placed a heavy force on Bai Lan’s shoulder.
• Bai Lan feigned distress over her poor aptitude and told True Lord Suiyun that True Lord Guangwei had said she had no hope of reaching Core Formation.

Bai Lan drank True Lord Suiyun’s Ice Flame Bone Wine and survived its violent spiritual energy, breaking through to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment with Suiyun’s help. After Bai Lan fainted, Ghost Spirit Old Mother confronted He Gui outside the Demonic Palace.

• True Lord Suiyun offered Bai Lan Ice Flame Bone Wine, and Bai Lan stopped her from pouring it into the Lightning Pool before drinking it in one gulp.
• Bai Lan endured the wine’s ice flame and demon-beast energy, suffering torn meridians as her cultivation broke through the fourth layer of Foundation Establishment.
• True Lord Suiyun sent divine sense into Bai Lan’s body to help disperse the surging spiritual energy.
• Bai Lan advanced three stages to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment, then fainted from exhaustion.
• Ghost Spirit Old Mother confronted He Gui outside the Demonic Palace with Lan Ning standing behind her.

Ghost Spirit Old Mother confronted He Gui for plotting to possess their son Lan Ning, then discovered He Gui’s attachment to Bai Ling and used her as leverage. The confrontation left Bai Ling badly injured, He Gui panicked, and the Demonic Palace elders increasingly wary of him.

• Ghost Spirit Old Mother arrived at the Demonic Palace and accused He Gui of planning to possess Lan Ning’s body.
• The Demonic Palace elders realized He Gui had intended to use his son’s identity and resources if he failed his Spirit Transformation tribulation.
• He Gui recognized Bai Ling and angrily accused her of obtaining the Forbidden Grounds’ access token to save Lan Ning.
• Ghost Spirit Old Mother seized Bai Ling and broke one of her arms to expose He Gui’s weakness.
• He Gui threatened to lead the Demonic Palace against North Nether Island, angering the elders, while Ghost Spirit Old Mother broke Bai Ling’s other arm.

Ghost Spirit Old Mother took Bai Ling hostage and forced He Gui to pay a vast ransom, while Bai Lan learned that Bai Ling had gained a Dark Spiritual Root and was cultivating the demonic technique she had secretly prepared. The chapter left Bai Lan facing True Lord Suiyun’s demand that she endure the Lightning Pool to reach the first level of the Purple Firmament Heart Method.

• Ghost Spirit Old Mother collected Bai Ling in a Spirit Beast Bag and demanded compensation from He Gui before returning her for tens of thousands of cultivation resources.
• Gongsun Lian approached the Demonic Palace elders, hoping to exploit the discontent with He Gui and gain power after Chiyue died.
• Bai Lan learned from Gongsun Lian that Bai Ling had consumed an Ancient Demon Heart, gained a Dark Spiritual Root, and was cultivating Bai Lan’s secretly prepared heaven-rank demonic technique.
• True Lord Suiyun gave Bai Lan a jar of Ice Flame Bone Wine and told her to retrieve the first level of the Purple Firmament Heart Method from the bottom of the Lightning Pool.

Bai Lan learned that Di Wu Yin was alive and that Wu Yin’s sealed shell and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s former Pavilion Master’s inheritance awaited her at the top of the Demon Suppressing Tower. After True Lord Suiyun’s probing nearly exposed Bai Lan’s potential, she loaded her save and decided to bypass the tower’s trials using her Heavenly Fox bloodline.

• True Lord Suiyun offered to dispose of Di Wu Yin, but Bai Lan warned her not to harm one of her people, whose life-bound primordial spirit was in Bai Lan’s hands.
• True Lord Suiyun assured Bai Lan that Di Wu Yin was alive with only minor injuries, and Bai Lan inferred that Di Wu Yin had been targeted by cultivators at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• True Lord Suiyun threatened to punish Bai Lan if she failed to master the Purple Firmament Heart Method within a year, and Bai Lan challenged her to offer a reward if she mastered it in a day.
• True Lord Suiyun grew suspicious when Bai Lan claimed she could learn the heaven-grade technique in a day, so Bai Lan loaded her save and changed the subject to Wu Yin’s shell.
• True Lord Suiyun revealed that Wu Yin’s shell was sealed atop the Demon Suppressing Tower, where Bai Lan could also claim the previous Pavilion Master’s inheritance by passing seven levels.
• Bai Lan accepted the challenge politely but planned to use her Heavenly Fox bloodline to suppress the tower’s demon beasts and reach the top without fighting.

True Lord Suiyun divined that Bai Lan’s actions had shifted an omen concerning herself from ill to auspicious, while the system escaped after witnessing her formation. Bai Lan reached Di Wu Yin as an arrogant young man threatened her, but she watched from afar before preparing to intervene.

• True Lord Suiyun used a divination formation to examine Bai Lan and concluded that Bai Lan’s ability to avoid misfortune had altered an ill omen involving her.
• The system woke after True Lord Suiyun left, fled the house, and sent Bai Lan messages and images of the formation.
• Bai Lan hurried to rescue Di Wu Yin, who was pinned by a Core Formation cultivator while Young Master Yan threatened her.
• Di Wu Yin spotted Bai Lan watching from afar and glared at her until Bai Lan tugged at her hood and changed her voice.

Bai Lan rescued Di Wu Yin from Yan Gu and learned that True Lord Suiyun had set up a divination formation to predict her fate. She realized repeated save-loading could expose her ability, while the system caught up and urged her to flee the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.

• Bai Lan stopped Yan Gu from buying Di Wu Yin and escorted her away after warning him she would remember his name.
• Bai Lan secretly ordered Elder Fu to mark Yan Gu's divine soul so she could deal with him later.
• Bai Lan discovered that True Lord Suiyun's formation had been divining her fortunes and misfortunes since she entered it.
• Bai Lan realized that repeated save-loading could make the formation's predictions shift and reveal her ability, so she resolved to use it cautiously around Suiyun.
• The system caught up with Bai Lan, asked about the formation, and suggested leaving the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.