Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan told the Azure Sect that the demonic path could plant Dark Spirit Roots, while True Lord Fu Guang dismissed the threat and revealed knowledge of a pill that could reshape Spirit Roots. Fu Guang then summoned Bai Lan, leaving the reason for her interest unclear.

• True Lord Lingxiao reassured Bai Lan that escaping possession by the Corpse Refining Sect’s ancestor had been fortunate.
• Bai Lan told True Lord Fu Guang and the others that Old Demon He Gui could plant Dark Spirit Roots, citing Bai Ling as a successful subject.
• True Person Qing He questioned how Bai Ling had survived and worried that the demonic path could use the technique to grow stronger.
• True Lord Fu Guang said reshaping Spirit Roots came at a great cost, while Bai Lan realized Fu Guang knew of the Five Flower Pill.
• Fu Guang asked Bai Lan to repeat her name, then led her out of the main hall.

Bai Lan learned that True Lord Fu Guang had been asked by Senior Wan Ze to protect her and received a Storage Bag from him. Back in the Void Stone, Bai Lan met Long Yanran and challenged her to consider the distance between mortal lives and a cultivator’s pursuit of immortality.

• Bai Lan asked Elder Fu whether he could protect her from True Lord Fu Guang, then cautiously followed Fu Guang.
• Fu Guang revealed that Senior Wan Ze had asked her to look after Bai Lan and gave Bai Lan a Storage Bag entrusted by him.
• Bai Lan returned to her courtyard, entered the Void Stone, and found Ling Xunxian with the newly recruited children.
• Ling Xunxian introduced Long Yanran, who was distressed about leaving her mother, and asked Bai Lan to handle her.
• Bai Lan explained that mortal attachments faded across a cultivator’s long life and urged Long Yanran to consider the difference between mortal and immortal paths.
• Ling Xunxian compared Bai Lan’s words to those of an old devil, and Bai Lan insisted she sounded like a righteous True Lord.

Bai Lan established regular Dao lectures for the Spirit Taming Sect and assigned Elder Fu to teach, using the prospect of Long Yanran as his disciple to secure his agreement. She then sent Li Xunxian on a recruitment mission to find two hidden talents, adding more work to her supposed leave.

• Long Yanran attained enlightenment, prompting Elder Fu to want to take her as his disciple.
• Bai Lan arranged for Elder Fu to teach the Spirit Taming Sect’s disciples every half year, and Elder Fu agreed in hopes of winning Long Yanran as his disciple.
• Bai Lan told Li Xunxian that Core Formation cultivators and Senior Miaoyunzi would also teach the disciples on regular schedules.
• Bai Lan gave Li Xunxian a map and ordered her to recruit Gu Qian'er and Luo Xiaoran into the Spirit Taming Sect.
• Bai Lan promised Li Xunxian extra Soul Nurturing Pills and taught her the Formless Skill for cultivating her soul.

Bai Lan arranged Qiu Tian’s mission to rescue Bai Ling from the Demonic Palace and received Jade Purity Peak’s territory from True Lord Lingxiao. The peak had few disciples, and its three registered members—Xiao Tianqi, Nangong Yuan, and Le Qing—were missing.

• Bai Lan gave Li Xunxian the first layer of a divine-sense cultivation method, and Li Xunxian agreed to learn it.
• Bai Lan told Qiu Tian to infiltrate the Demonic Palace and bring Bai Ling out when the righteous and demonic paths went to war.
• The system quizzed Qiu Tian on how to act like a yandere when Bai Ling was affectionate with another man.
• Bai Lan returned to the Azure Origin Sect and received a summons from True Lord Lingxiao to visit Tongming Peak.
• True Lord Lingxiao gave Bai Lan Jade Purity Peak’s restriction token and explained that its few registered disciples were missing.
• Bai Lan checked the roster and recognized Qing Xuan’s three disciples: Xiao Tianqi, Nangong Yuan, and Le Qing.

Bai Lan visited Meng Xue'er at the Azure Origin Sect after recognizing her name among the sect’s promising disciples. She learned that Long Aotian had escaped from Myriad Treasures Pavilion, and Xue'er’s people had lost his trail.

• True Lord Lingxiao gave Bai Lan a register of talented disciples and explained that Meng Xue'er had placed fifth in the outer sect tournament.
• Bai Lan told True Lord Lingxiao that Xue'er was her friend and went to visit her rather than seek to take her as a disciple.
• Bai Lan brought Elder Fu out of the Void Stone and asked him to search for Long Aotian’s aura near Xue'er’s residence.
• Xue'er emerged from her cave residence and told Bai Lan that Long Aotian had escaped from Myriad Treasures Pavilion and remained missing.

Bai Lan arranged to track the escaped Long Aotian and considered how to use Xue'er, who unexpectedly asked to become her disciple. Seeing an opportunity to influence the Carefree Sect, Bai Lan agreed on the condition that Xue'er surrender a wisp of her soul, then persuaded her that Long Aotian's illusion technique had caused her attachment.

• Bai Lan ordered Elder Fu to prepare Long Yanran to spy on Long Aotian and sent Lan Jinyu to track him as well.
• Xue'er asked Bai Lan to take her as a disciple, explaining how her feelings for Long Aotian had left her unable to advance.
• Bai Lan realized Xue'er could help her gain influence over the Carefree Sect and agreed to take her on if she handed over a wisp of her soul.
• Bai Lan told Xue'er that Long Aotian's illusion technique had caused her heart demon, and Xue'er believed Bai Lan had been trying to save her all along.

Bai Lan accepted Meng Xue'er as her disciple, hoping to help her regain Wang Youzi’s favor and eventually inherit the Carefree Sect. After Bai Lan asked to skip the disciple ceremony and mentioned two newly advanced Nascent Soul Dao Monarchs, True Lord Lingxiao decided to attempt his own breakthrough before the demonic cultivators invaded.

• Xue'er gave Bai Lan her natal soul and called her Master, and Bai Lan accepted her as a disciple while insisting she change how she addressed her.
• Bai Lan considered Xue'er’s potential to inherit the Carefree Sect and its Black Market enterprise if she improved her cultivation enough to satisfy her grandfather, Wang Youzi.
• Bai Lan told True Lord Lingxiao that Meng Xue'er had insisted on becoming her disciple, and he reacted with disbelief and envy at how easily Bai Lan gained disciples.
• Bai Lan asked to skip the master-disciple ceremony so she could enter seclusion and help Xue'er break through to Foundation Establishment, and True Lord Lingxiao reluctantly agreed.
• Bai Lan told True Lord Lingxiao that True Monarch Qingxia and True Monarch Yunxia had advanced from Core Formation to Nascent Soul, prompting him to feel helpless and resolve to attempt his own breakthrough.

Bai Lan learned that the Azure Cloud Sect had secretly gained two Nascent Soul cultivators, then claimed a spirit spring on Jade Purity Peak for her spirit fields. She encountered Nan Xianshi and her new disciple Xue'er and invited them both inside to discuss something.

• Bai Lan told True Lord Lingxiao that the Azure Cloud Sect had two Nascent Soul cultivators and suggested joining forces against the demonic path; Lingxiao resolved to pursue a breakthrough to Nascent Soul.
• Bai Lan visited the pond where True Person Qing Xuan and Bai Ling had met, discovered it was a spirit spring, and stored all its water in the Void Stone for her spirit fields.
• Bai Lan and the system discussed exploiting opportunities during the coming war as they walked around Jade Purity Peak.
• Xue'er and Nan Xianshi met on Jade Purity Peak and argued over their connection to True Person Qing Xuan and their right to be there.
• Bai Lan greeted Nan Xianshi, acknowledged Xue'er as her disciple, and invited them both inside to talk.

Bai Lan persuaded Nan Xianshi and Xue'er to help her destroy the Corpse Refining Sect, concealing how she had maneuvered them into agreeing. After Nan Xianshi left to seek reinforcements, Xue'er admitted she still could not stop thinking about Long Aotian, unsettling Bai Lan.

• Bai Lan told Nan Xianshi that she planned to eradicate the Corpse Refining Sect and asked for her help.
• Nan Xianshi and Xue'er agreed to join Bai Lan, and Nan Xianshi decided to ask True Person Qing He for more support.
• Bai Lan saw Nan Xianshi off as she hurried away to seek reinforcements.
• Xue'er told Bai Lan that thoughts of Long Aotian kept her from calming her heart and cultivating.

Bai Lan adapted the Forgetfulness Art to stabilize Xue'er’s obsession with Long Aotian and prepared her to attempt Foundation Establishment. With Xue'er’s condition improved, Bai Lan left to lead an attack on the Corpse Refining Sect, where she discovered a group of disciples and allies had gathered for the operation.

• Bai Lan and Elder Fu chose the Forgetfulness Art to lessen Xue'er’s obsession, and Bai Lan modified it so Xue'er would cultivate only its first level.
• Bai Lan repeatedly tested and revised the method using save states while training in higher-tier divine abilities, gradually stabilizing its side effects.
• After Xue'er’s feelings became less overwhelming, Bai Lan gave her a Foundation Establishment Pill and told her to try breaking through once she mastered the first level.
• Bai Lan told Xue'er she was leaving to join the war and raid the Corpse Refining Sect while its ancestor was away.
• Bai Lan went to meet True Person Qing He and found that Nan Xianshi had borrowed several dozen Foundation Establishment disciples, while Xue'er had sent her Core Formation guard to help.
• Azure Origin Sect disciples outside the main hall speculated about which elder would lead the mission and noticed someone approaching.

Bai Lan agreed to lead an expedition against the Corpse Refining Sect and promised that none of the Azure Origin Sect disciples would die. True Person Qing He assigned True Person Yin Ning to accompany her, and the gathered disciples faced the mission with dread.

• A returning group of disciples recognized Bai Lan as the Qi Refining champion from six years earlier and were shocked to learn she had reached Core Formation.
• True Person Qing He warned Bai Lan that the Corpse Refining Sect was dangerous and asked her to retreat if any disciple died, but Bai Lan promised there would be no casualties.
• Bai Lan recognized True Person Yin Ning from Meditation Cliff and learned she would accompany the expedition.
• Bai Lan had Elder Fu eavesdrop on Qing He and Yin Ning’s voice transmission, revealing that Yin Ning intended to protect the disciples from Bai Lan.
• True Person Qing He announced that the expedition would attack the Corpse Refining Sect while its ancestor was away at Starfall Plain, with Bai Lan and Yin Ning leading the disciples.

Bai Lan prepared to destroy the Corpse Refining Sect by exploiting its Patriarch’s absence and secretly targeting its Core Formation cultivators and Guardian Sect Formation. She equipped the Azure Origin Sect’s group for the assault and waited for Luan Yin’s inside information before setting out.

• Dawn declared her confidence in Bai Lan, and Elder Fu revealed that Dawn’s spiritual sense was aided by a Nascent Soul remnant soul attached to her.
• True Person Qing He told Bai Lan that the Corpse Refining Sect’s Patriarch would be away fighting the Golden Qi Sect and ordered her to withdraw after half a month.
• Bai Lan planned to have Luan Yin guide her into the Corpse Refining Sect, where Elder Fu would immobilize Core Formation cultivators so she could pull them into the Void Stone and destroy them with a prepared killing formation.
• Bai Lan gave True Person Yin Ning a sixth-rank Heavenly Dipper Sword Formation disk and said Yin Ning and Wang Zhen would activate it with the Foundation Establishment disciples at a critical moment.
• Wang Zhen agreed to follow Xue’er’s orders and help with the mission despite having hoped to avoid the righteous-devil war.

Gongsun Lian persuaded the Soul Binding Valley Master to let the Azure Sect and Corpse Refining Sect weaken each other before Soul Binding Valley intervened. Bai Lan then led the Azure Sect’s Flying Ship safely through Soul Binding Valley territory and went ahead alone to scout the Corpse Refining Sect.

• Gongsun Lian contacted the Soul Binding Valley Master and proposed exploiting the Azure Sect’s attack on the Corpse Refining Sect to seize territory and eliminate Azure Sect survivors.
• The Soul Binding Valley Master questioned how Soul Binding Valley could take the Corpse Refining Sect’s territory without He Gui or the Demonic Palace objecting, and Gongsun Lian promised to mediate.
• Bai Lan led the Azure Sect cultivators toward demonic territory aboard their concealed Flying Ship.
• Yin Ning urged Bai Lan to detour around Soul Binding Valley, but Bai Lan insisted its people would not attack them.
• The Flying Ship passed safely over Soul Binding Valley, and Bai Lan left the others behind to scout the Corpse Refining Sect alone.

Bai Lan located the Corpse Refining Sect’s Four Directions Soul Capturing Array formation eye and sent Luan Yin to steal its Formation Disk while she prepared to trap the sect’s cultivators. Luan Yin escaped with the disk and valuable jade slips, leaving the sect’s guards baffled.

• Bai Lan used the Broad-Eyed Wonderful Dharma Heart Sutra to reveal that the formation eye was on the third floor of the Corpse Refining Sect’s Library Pavilion.
• Bai Lan instructed Luan Yin to use a Blood Bead to break the Nascent Soul Old Ancestor’s restrictions and take the Formation Disk, promising him a Peak Master position.
• Bai Lan began secretly setting up the Eight Gates Sky Net Array while Elder Fu’s remnant soul shielded her from the sect’s formation.
• Luan Yin possessed an inner sect disciple, entered the Library Pavilion, killed the Qi Refining stage underling accompanying him, and detonated the Blood Bead to break the restrictions.
• Luan Yin took the Formation Disk and jade slips from two Storage Bags and teleported to the Void Stone before the Corpse Refining Sect’s Core Formation cultivators arrived.

Bai Lan secured the Corpse Refining Sect’s manuals and prepared to claim its remaining treasures, while Luan Yin became a peak master and planned to recruit followers for his puppet research. Bai Lan trapped the sect’s cultivators inside a formation, where they underestimated the lone intruder.

• Bai Lan found few manuals in the Storage Bag, and Luan Yin explained that the valuable Jade Slips were on the Library Pavilion’s third floor.
• Bai Lan appointed Luan Yin a peak master, and the system teased him about lacking disciples and needing Soul Nurturing Pills.
• Luan Yin revealed that he had possessed the Supreme Ancestor’s disciple to infiltrate the pavilion and brought the talented young man back; the system assigned him to Puppet Refining Peak and told Luan Yin to take his soul.
• Luan Yin said he planned to recruit demonic-path subordinates and delegate the puppet-making assignments so he could focus on developing refined puppets.
• Bai Lan activated the Eight Gates Sky Net Array, trapping everyone inside the Corpse Refining Sect, while its disciples felt reassured because she appeared to be its only early Tribulation Crossing stage intruder.

Bai Lan used the Void Stone and a powerful formation to kill the Corpse Refining Sect’s five Core Formation elders. She left Yin Ning and Wang Zhen to deal with the disciples and went to search the sect’s other areas and its ancestor’s cave dwelling.

• Bai Lan drew the five Core Formation elders together and trapped them beneath a crushing pressure and concealing cloud-and-mist spell.
• Bai Lan pulled the five elders into the Void Stone, where the Wind Fire Demon Subduing Array killed them in less than the time it took to burn an incense stick.
• Bai Lan took the elders’ Storage Bags, sent their bodies back into the clouds, and used explosive talismans to make the bloodied sky reveal their disappearance.
• The Corpse Refining Sect disciples panicked as they discovered the elders’ soul lamps had gone out, while Bai Lan assigned Yin Ning and Wang Zhen to handle the remaining disciples.
• Bai Lan headed for the ancestor’s cave dwelling and asked Elder Fu to search for treasures, but he told her to use her own divine sense.

Bai Lan entered the Corpse Refining Sect’s old ancestor’s cave abode to claim its treasures and found Nangong Yuan, who had been captured and left without his memories. She rescued him and forced him to accept her as his ancestor, then instructed him to call her Peak Master outside.

• Bai Lan detected and broke a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s restriction around the old ancestor’s cave abode.
• Two Corpse Puppets attacked Bai Lan, and she destroyed them with lightning spheres infused with Purple Firmament True Fire.
• Bai Lan discovered Nangong Yuan in the depths of the cave and learned that his capture had not been part of the original plot.
• Bai Lan freed Nangong Yuan from the Spirit Binding Rope and claimed to be his ancestor.
• Bai Lan told Nangong Yuan to call her Peak Master when they were outside, and he agreed.

Bai Lan seized the Corpse Refining Old Ancestor’s treasures and learned that his poison cultivation art might be completed at the Myriad Poisons Sect. When the Soul Binding Ancestor approached, she urged the Azure Origin Sect disciples to flee while she stayed behind, then revealed that keeping their Storage Bags was part of her plan.

• Bai Lan convinced Nangong Yuan to hand over a wisp of his divine soul, binding him to obey her, and sent him outside.
• Bai Lan collected the cave’s treasures and spiritual vein, then found clues linking the Corpse Refining Old Ancestor to the Myriad Poisons Sect and thought of her infiltrator Cheng Tianfeng.
• Elder Fu warned Bai Lan that the Soul Binding Ancestor was approaching with an army of demonic cultivators.
• Dozens of Azure Origin Sect disciples and two Tribulation Crossing cultivators wiped out the Corpse Refining Sect’s remaining demonic cultivators using the Heavenly Dipper Sword Formation.
• Bai Lan urged Yin Ning, Wang Zhen, and the other disciples to flee toward Starfall Plain, but told Nan Xianshi she wanted to keep the Storage Bags for herself.

Bai Lan prepared an ambush for Soul Binding and the demonic cultivators by combining dozens of Formation Disks into layered formations. She finished setting up the arrays and retreated with Hong Xiao and True Person Xu into the Void Stone.

• Nan Xianshi found Nangong Yuan alive, insulted him, and fled ahead while Bai Lan reminded him to respect her as an elder.
• Elder Fu warned Bai Lan that her Blood Beads and remaining talismans could not kill the Nascent Soul Cultivator Soul Binding, but Bai Lan chose to test her new weapon instead.
• Soul Binding arrived at the Corpse Refining Sect and found Bai Lan alone, while she confirmed the approaching demonic cultivators included none of the people she needed to spare.
• Bai Lan reloaded to just before Soul Binding's arrival and brought out thirty matched Formation Disks, then had Hong Xiao and True Person Xu help set up combined formations.
• Bai Lan asked Elder Fu to conceal the area, completed two powerful formations for Soul Binding, and took Hong Xiao and True Person Xu into the Void Stone.

Bai Lan trapped Soul Binding and his followers in layered arrays, then used Elder Fu’s fabricated Nascent Soul presence to unsettle Soul Binding. Soul Binding destroyed his body and escaped as a Nascent Soul, leaving Bai Lan asking how to ensure such an escape could be prevented next time.

• Soul Binding ordered two Core Formation demonic cultivators to pursue Bai Lan, unaware she was waiting beside an array ambush.
• Bai Lan activated thirty layers of fire arrays against Soul Binding Valley’s cultivators and two high-grade arrays against Soul Binding, while Hong Xiao and True Lord Xu attacked from afar.
• Bai Lan had Elder Fu project Nascent Soul divine sense and claim to be the Myriad Poisons Ancestor, making Soul Binding fear he was doomed.
• Bai Lan and Elder Fu pretended they planned to preserve Soul Binding’s body and refine it into a Corpse Puppet.
• Soul Binding exploded his physical body to break through the arrays and fled as a golden Nascent Soul.
• Elder Fu said they could not catch the fleeing Nascent Soul, and Bai Lan asked whether they could prepare to imprison one in advance.