Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan explained that True Lord Suiyun’s interest in her came from a mistaken divination caused by Bai Lan’s presence, and she was willing to let Suiyun take her bad luck and killing intent. After Di Wu Yin asked about Bai Lan’s absence, Bai Lan revealed the lightning marks left by her time at the Lightning Pool and her rapid cultivation progress, but refused to explain the price she had paid.

• Bai Lan told the System that True Lord Suiyun’s divinations had mistaken her for the one favored by the Heavenly Dao, making Long Aotian and Bai Ling appear like baleful stars.
• Bai Lan and the System decided not to reload the save and to hold their positions while the System struggled to process her explanation.
• Bai Lan said she would gladly let True Lord Suiyun siphon away her destiny along with her abundant killing intent and bad luck.
• Di Wu Yin complained that Bai Lan had left her alone and asked where she had gone, so Bai Lan showed her the fading lightning marks on her arm.
• Di Wu Yin noticed that Bai Lan had advanced from the fourth to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment and eagerly asked to try whatever had caused it, but Bai Lan refused to reveal the price.

Bai Lan arranged for Di Wu Yin to earn rewards from both Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and Azure Origin Sect by killing wanted Evil Cultivators. She then headed to the Demon Suppressing Tower, where she planned to bypass its trials and learned that the veiled assassin Lin Ruoshui was destined to fall for Long Aotian.

• Bai Lan gave Di Wu Yin a list of wanted Evil Cultivators and proposed collecting both Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's assassination reward and Azure Origin Sect's bounty for each target.
• Bai Lan advised Di Wu Yin to provoke troublesome people into accepting assassination orders against Long Aotian or Bai Ling, then went to the Demon Suppressing Tower.
• Elder Fu explained that the tower's seven floors used Teleportation Arrays to send out demonic beasts, and Bai Lan decided to skip fighting them if she could reach the next floor.
• Bai Lan heard that the veiled assassin challenging the tower was Lin Ruoshui, a Foundation Establishment cultivator and Long Aotian's future harem member.
• The system described how Lin Ruoshui would fall for Long Aotian, and Bai Lan joked that she was the villain standing behind the evil dragon.

Bai Lan provoked Lin Ruoshui, then used the Fox King's tail to race through the Demon Suppressing Tower. On the seventh floor, she found Wu Yin's corpse displayed inside an ice coffin.

• Bai Lan taunted Lin Ruoshui about her strength and entered the Demon Suppressing Tower, prompting Lin Ruoshui to stay and watch.
• Bai Lan used a seventh-tier Heavenly Fox tail to frighten away the beasts and swiftly cleared the first three floors.
• A Heavenly Secrets Pavilion cultivator told Lin Ruoshui that Bai Lan was the Pavilion Master's adopted daughter and had risen from Qi Refining to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment in one year.
• Bai Lan reached the seventh floor, where she found Wu Yin's body cut into three pieces inside an ice coffin wrapped with red ribbon, with a Jade Slip nearby.

Bai Lan confronted Yun Tinghan, a dragon who suspected her of harming one of his kind, and learned he was tied to Bai Ling’s story. She left the encounter facing the revelation that Yun Tinghan carried Ancestral Dragon blood.

• Elder Fu warned Bai Lan that a hostile seventh-tier divine beast with dragon aura was watching her, but she stored the ice coffin and Jade Slip in her Void Stone anyway.
• Yun Tinghan appeared and accused Bai Lan of killing a dragon, but he held back because she was one of True Lord Suiyun’s people.
• Bai Lan showed Yun Tinghan her modified Dragon Taming Art and named Old Demon He Gui as its creator, provoking his anger.
• Bai Lan learned Yun Tinghan was part of Bai Ling’s harem and that he had fallen in love with her after she saved him.
• The system identified Yun Tinghan as a divine beast with Ancestral Dragon bloodline.

Bai Lan confronted Yun Tinghan about Long Aotian’s stolen dragon bloodline, then emerged from the Demon Suppressing Tower after clearing its trials. As Yan Gu entered the tower and Lin Ruoshui approached her to discuss their deal, Bai Lan declared that Yan Gu would die for laying hands on one of hers.

• Bai Lan told Yun Tinghan that Long Aotian had stolen a young dragon’s bloodline, and Yun Tinghan questioned her proof.
• Bai Lan left, and Elder Fu rejected the idea of taking disciples from the Spirit Taming Sect because their souls would remain under her control.
• News spread that Bai Lan had cleared six floors of the Demon Suppressing Tower alone, prompting Yan Gu to accuse her of relying on talismans.
• Yan Gu entered the tower after Bai Lan, unaware that her surviving trial beasts would make his challenge harder.
• Bai Lan discussed Yan Gu’s likely retaliation with Elder Fu and said Bai Ling would kill him if necessary.
• Lin Ruoshui approached Bai Lan to discuss their deal, and Bai Lan said Yan Gu had set foot on the path to death by laying hands on one of hers.

Bai Lan offered to help Lin Ruoshui deal with Yan Gu, but demanded a Heart Demon Vow severing Lin Ruoshui’s ties to Long Aotian and barring her from helping him. Lin Ruoshui agreed to avoid interfering with Bai Lan’s enemy, while revealing that her master might force her to marry Yan Gu.

• Lin Ruoshui agreed to keep Bai Lan’s plan secret and asked what help would cost; Bai Lan demanded a Heart Demon Vow concerning Long Aotian.
• Lin Ruoshui revealed she had accepted a bounty to hunt Long Aotian, and Bai Lan coldly ordered her to reject it.
• Bai Lan insisted that only she could kill Long Aotian, and Lin Ruoshui decided not to interfere after recognizing Bai Lan’s formidable strength.
• Bai Lan offered to cover Lin Ruoshui’s lost Spirit Stones, and Lin Ruoshui explained she feared Elder Yue would force her to become Yan Gu’s Dao companion.
• Elder Fu teased that Lin Ruoshui would never escape her master’s control.

Bai Lan learned that Elder Yue had bound Lin Ruoshui with a Divine Restraining Curse to control her, but Elder Fu later erased the curse Elder Yue secretly placed on Bai Lan. Elder Yue took Lin Ruoshui away, while Lin left Bai Lan a note arranging another meeting to discuss assassinating Yan Gu.

• Elder Fu explained that Elder Yue had placed a Divine Restraining Curse on Lin Ruoshui, binding her life and fate to her master unless Elder Yue died or Lin reached the Nascent Soul stage.
• Lin Ruoshui told Bai Lan she refused to marry Yan Gu despite owing Elder Yue a debt of gratitude, but Elder Yue arrived before Bai Lan could explain the situation.
• Elder Yue recognized Bai Lan, praised her cultivation, and took Lin Ruoshui away; Lin slipped Bai Lan a note with a time and place for their next meeting about killing Yan Gu.
• Elder Fu revealed that Elder Yue had secretly placed a Divine Restraining Curse on Bai Lan, then erased it before it could threaten her.
• Bai Lan suspected Elder Yue might use the curse to control many Heavenly Secrets Pavilion cultivators, and Elder Fu explained that the curse required sacrificing a wisp of the caster's soul, limiting how many people she could bind.

Bai Lan kept Elder Yue’s Divine Restraining Curse on her and tried to persuade True Lord Suiyun that Elder Yue threatened the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. True Lord Suiyun appeared ready to flee with Bai Lan, leaving Bai Lan to ask how she planned to deal with Elder Yue.

• Bai Lan stopped Elder Fu from erasing Elder Yue’s Divine Restraining Curse and watched Elder Yue leave with her disciple.
• Bai Lan went to True Lord Suiyun’s residence and claimed Elder Yue had cursed her and threatened to take over the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• Bai Lan exaggerated the danger, suggesting Elder Yue might have secretly cursed everyone in the pavilion.
• True Lord Suiyun said she would take Bai Lan with her when she left, and Bai Lan realized she intended to flee.
• True Lord Suiyun teased Bai Lan for pretending to cry, and Bai Lan asked how she would handle Elder Yue.

Bai Lan learned that True Lord Suiyun had been plotting against Elder Yue and discovered that the Pavilion Master had used a divination array to target her. After Elder Fu erased Bai Lan’s Divine Restraining Curse and altered the array, Bai Lan prepared a surprise for her Foster Mother.

• True Lord Suiyun told Bai Lan she had indulged Elder Yue only to keep her alive until she could use her to kill someone else, and Bai Lan pretended to regret disrupting the plan.
• Bai Lan secretly told Elder Fu to act, and he altered the formation in the hall while True Lord Suiyun spoke with her.
• True Lord Suiyun described an elaborate process for removing Bai Lan’s Divine Restraining Curse, but Bai Lan refused and left to seek refuge with Elder Yue.
• Elder Fu told Bai Lan he had erased the curse and found a Six Harmonies Insight Array targeting her, which True Lord Suiyun had been able to activate through her formation, cultivation, and divination skills.
• Bai Lan rejected Elder Fu’s advice to flee and said the altered runes were a surprise for her Foster Mother.

Bai Lan tested her suspicion that True Lord Suiyun could siphon fortune, and Suiyun’s reaction confirmed it. As Suiyun trapped Bai Lan in a strange array and declared she would defy heaven, Bai Lan remained composed and prepared to reload if necessary.

• Bai Lan altered the Six Harmonies Insight Array’s divination to show Bai Ling’s fortune and waited to see how True Lord Suiyun would react.
• True Lord Suiyun saw overwhelming purple qi in the array, seized Bai Lan, and rushed her into the hall to set up another formation.
• Bai Lan told Elder Fu that Suiyun meant to siphon her fortune and argued that the Heavenly Dao was a set of rules that could be defied.
• Bai Lan said she intended to replace the Heavenly Dao, while Elder Fu considered her claims about Long Aotian and the Child of Destiny.
• True Lord Suiyun immobilized Bai Lan with several formations and declared that she would defy heaven, while Bai Lan stayed calm and kept the option to reload.

True Lord Suiyun activated five grand arrays to drain Bai Lan’s fortune, but the formations drew Bai Lan’s overwhelming Killing Intent into Suiyun instead. Suiyun concluded that she was fated to be halted at Spirit Transformation, leaving Bai Lan wondering what she meant.

• True Lord Suiyun activated five Ninth Tier Grand Arrays to drain Bai Lan’s fortune and soul.
• Bai Lan let the arrays operate while studying them, and Elder Fu refused to attack True Lord Suiyun directly.
• The arrays produced dense black Killing Intent instead of the auspicious violet qi True Lord Suiyun expected.
• True Lord Suiyun tried to stop the arrays and flee, but Elder Fu suppressed her, allowing the formations to transfer Bai Lan’s Killing Intent into her.
• After the arrays finished, True Lord Suiyun laughed and said she could not escape being halted at Spirit Transformation, leaving Bai Lan puzzled about her meaning.

Bai Lan rewound time to save True Lord Suiyun from a lightning tribulation after discovering that Suiyun’s arrays were designed to steal the fortune of those favored by the Heavenly Dao. Suiyun explained that she had built them because she had twice reached Spirit Transformation and died in tribulations, and now believed only the Heavenly Dao’s favored could ascend.

• The Heavenly Dao triggered a lightning tribulation against True Lord Suiyun, and its pressure caused Bai Lan to spit blood.
• Bai Lan loaded a save and let Suiyun escape the array before the lightning struck, though Suiyun suffered backlash and inhaled black Baleful Intent.
• Suiyun accused Bai Lan of concealing her knowledge of the Six Harmonies Insight Array and questioned why she carried so much Killing Intent.
• Bai Lan asked why Suiyun had created five Ninth Tier Grand Arrays, and Suiyun admitted they were meant to drain the fortune of those favored by the Heavenly Dao.
• Suiyun revealed that she had reincarnated twice, reached Spirit Transformation in both previous lives, and died beneath lightning tribulations after learning that only the Heavenly Dao’s favored could ascend.

True Lord Suiyun questioned her failed pursuit of ascension, and Bai Lan told her that Long Aotian was the true Child of Destiny. Suiyun considered trying to take his fortune, while Bai Lan secretly planned to use the result to guide her own actions.

• Elder Fu blamed the Heavenly Dao for his death, but Bai Lan told him that he had simply lacked the strength to survive the lightning tribulation.
• Bai Lan reasoned that True Lord Suiyun had spent three lifetimes preparing to ascend, but Bai Lan's presence had disrupted her divinations and plans.
• True Lord Suiyun asked why Bai Lan had stayed despite knowing Suiyun had used her, and Bai Lan pretended to be hurt by the betrayal.
• Bai Lan told True Lord Suiyun that Long Aotian was the Child of Destiny and claimed she wanted Suiyun to take his fortune so he could be killed.
• True Lord Suiyun began divining and considered testing whether she could absorb Long Aotian's fortune, while Bai Lan urged her to try.

True Lord Suiyun used the Divine Summoning Curse on Bai Lan and demanded a wisp of her divine soul, while Bai Lan secretly planned to exploit Suiyun’s power and fortune. Suiyun took Bai Lan to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion in Tiandu City to find Long Aotian, where Xue'er’s Clan Uncle recognized Bai Lan and began ingratiating himself with her.

• Elder Fu identified Suiyun’s technique as the Divine Summoning Curse and realized Soul Devourer had been a Spirit Transformation cultivator with a prior life.
• Suiyun asked Bai Lan for a wisp of her divine soul, promising to treat her as family or leave her the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, and Bai Lan readily handed one over.
• Bai Lan told Suiyun that Long Aotian was at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion in Tiandu City, and Suiyun carried her there at great speed.
• The Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s Core Formation elder came out to greet Suiyun, recognized Bai Lan as Xue'er’s friend, and tried to ingratiate himself with her.
• Bai Lan asked the elder to lead them to Long Aotian, and he repeated the name in surprise.

Bai Lan and True Lord Suiyun went to Xue'er’s room to test whether Long Aotian was favored by the Heavenly Dao. They found him with Xue'er, and Bai Lan announced that she would borrow him for a day.

• The black-robed elder identified Long Aotian as the possible Child of Destiny, and Bai Lan confirmed his identity.
• Elder Fu regretted that he and Long Aotian had once fled from Bai Lan, while Bai Lan insisted that their only hope was to defy heaven and destroy the Heavenly Dao.
• True Lord Suiyun calculated an omen of misfortune but entered Xue'er’s room to proceed with the test.
• Bai Lan found Long Aotian drawing Xue'er’s brows and asked to borrow him for a day.
• Long Aotian panicked and protested that Xue'er could not give him to Bai Lan.

Bai Lan confronted Long Aotian with Xue'er, who realized he was not the man she had loved, and captured him after stopping his escape. True Lord Suiyun found his fate obscured by gray mist, and Bai Lan planned to experiment on him, leaving his supposed remnant-soul master unacknowledged.

• Xue'er asked Bai Lan whether she had impersonated Long Aotian to swindle her, and Bai Lan admitted it.
• Long Aotian denounced Bai Lan, but Xue'er recognized that he had never been the Long Aotian who made her romantic promises.
• True Lord Suiyun ordered Long Aotian captured, and Bai Lan reloaded time to stop him using a damaged Small teleportation array.
• True Lord Suiyun told Bai Lan that Long Aotian's fate contained purple qi but was hidden behind gray mist.
• Bai Lan planned to experiment on Long Aotian, and True Lord Suiyun placed him in a Spirit Beast Bag after Bai Lan warned her about a remnant soul.

True Lord Suiyun tested Bai Lan with a Soul Devouring Beast, but Bai Lan concealed Elder Fu and passed it off as the scent of Soul Nourishing Pills. True Lord Suiyun then began a five-formation procedure involving Long Aotian, forcing Bai Lan to stay and watch as the formations consumed millions of Spirit Stones.

• True Lord Suiyun summoned her Soul Devouring Beast, which reacted to Bai Lan and made Elder Fu fear that his presence would be exposed.
• Bai Lan fed the beast a Soul Nourishing Pill and secretly hid Elder Fu and the pills in her Void Stone, convincing True Lord Suiyun that the beast had mistaken the pills' scent for a soul.
• Long Aotian despaired inside the Spirit Beast Bag, believing Bai Lan was favored by the Heavenly Dao and that he could not escape his fate while she remained.
• True Lord Suiyun released Long Aotian into five active formations, blocked Bai Lan from leaving, and threatened the wisp of divine soul she had entrusted to her.
• After the formations drained millions of Spirit Stones, True Lord Suiyun formed a seal and violently shook both hands.

Bai Lan experienced a failed attempt to stop True Lord Suiyun from extracting Long Aotian’s destiny, and reloaded her save when a Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation threatened to strike. Afterward, she began copying the five Ninth Tier Grand Arrays from memory so Elder Fu could help her reproduce and modify them.

• Bai Lan watched True Lord Suiyun’s five Ninth Tier Grand Arrays draw violet aura from Long Aotian as he tried and failed to break free.
• The Heavenly Dao’s pressure and a Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation interrupted True Lord Suiyun’s attempt to absorb Long Aotian’s aura.
• Bai Lan reloaded her save to before she had tested True Lord Suiyun, then told Elder Fu she had merely had a nightmare.
• Bai Lan drew the five destiny-extracting formations from memory and asked Elder Fu to identify the materials needed to refine them and suggest possible adjustments.

Bai Lan asked Elder Fu to help turn True Lord Suiyun’s five Ninth Tier Grand Arrays into fate-gifting formations, realizing she needed ten and vast resources to pursue ascension. She then returned to Suiyun and secured a large Teleportation Array, but Suiyun proposed assigning her a personal guard.

• Elder Fu admired Bai Lan’s five Ninth Tier Grand Arrays and agreed that modifying them would require other formation masters and high-grade materials.
• Bai Lan explained that the arrays could seize fate and said she wanted them changed to gift fate in controlled amounts; she decided she needed ten formations to pursue her plans for ascension.
• Bai Lan returned to True Lord Suiyun and complained that Lin Ruoshui’s master had placed a Divine Restraining Curse on her.
• Bai Lan showed Suiyun a large Teleportation Array diagram and claimed she needed it to escape Old Demon He Gui and the Demonic Palace.
• Suiyun promised to have the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion forge the array, then suggested finding Bai Lan a personal guard.

Bai Lan gained Elder Xu as her guard and persuaded True Lord Suiyun to let her try recruiting Lin Ruoshui before eliminating Elder Yue. She then began checking whether Elder Xu could be made to serve her, ending with an order to inspect the elder’s divine sense and soul.

• True Lord Suiyun introduced Elder Xu, a former Demonic Palace elder, as Bai Lan’s new guard.
• Bai Lan recognized Elder Xu from her past encounter with Lan Ning and considered using her to help bring Lan Ning into the Void Stone.
• Bai Lan told True Lord Suiyun she would stay and cultivate in the Lightning Pool, then offered to recruit Lin Ruoshui to aid in eliminating Elder Yue.
• True Lord Suiyun agreed to let Bai Lan handle Lin Ruoshui, while Elder Xu accompanied Bai Lan to her residence.
• Elder Xu explained that she had sworn a Heart Demon Vow to repay True Lord Suiyun for saving her life, and Bai Lan ordered Elder Fu to inspect her divine sense and soul.