Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan helped Nan Xianshi defeat Bai Ling by using spirit stones to distract Bai Ling’s phoenix, then quickly defeated Long Aotian. She left the arena with time to watch the other match, while Qi Xiaoru reported that bets on Long Aotian had limited their earnings.

• Bai Lan advised Nan Xianshi to use mid-grade spirit stones to lure Bai Ling’s growing divine beast away from the fight.
• On Bai Lan’s eighth reload, Nan Xianshi distracted the phoenix with three spirit stones and knocked Bai Ling’s sword from her hand.
• Bai Lan turned her attacks on Long Aotian, then claimed that his master had taught her the body-tempering technique that protected her from his sword.
• Bai Lan struck Long Aotian in the back with her spear, injured him without hitting a vital point, and was declared the winner.
• Qi Xiaoru told Bai Lan that bets on Long Aotian had kept their earnings low.

Bai Lan defeated Long Aotian, but Li Qiushui rushed to heal him while Li Shizu and Bai Lan plotted to have him assassinated. When Nan Xianshi defeated Bai Ling, True Person Qing Xuan attacked Nan Xianshi to protect his disciple, leaving her unconscious and her meridians severed; True Person Qing He faced the aftermath.

• Li Qiushui broke free of Li Shizu and fed Blood Recovery Pills to the injured Long Aotian, while Li Shizu admitted she knew about Long Aotian’s other women.
• Bai Lan asked Li Shizu whether he had found an assassin, and he confirmed they were waiting for Long Aotian to leave the sect.
• Bai Ling attacked Nan Xianshi with hidden flying needles after losing her weapon, but Nan Xianshi evaded them and knocked Bai Ling unconscious.
• True Person Qing Xuan accused Nan Xianshi of excessive force, shattered the arena’s defensive barrier, and struck her unconscious, severing her meridians.
• True Person Qing He arrived and confronted True Person Qing Xuan, while Bai Lan openly insulted Qing Xuan and then loaded her save.
• Bai Lan worried that True Person Qing Xuan would cripple her if she fought Bai Ling, and she resolved to get rid of him.

Bai Lan protected Nan Xianshi from True Person Qing Xuan’s attack, and True Person Qing He publicly confronted Qing Xuan for violating sect rules. After Qing Xuan left to accept punishment, Bai Lan claimed her Golden Bell Shield was badly damaged and received permission to choose a treasury treasure at Qing Xuan’s expense.

• Bai Lan threw her Golden Bell Shield over Nan Xianshi and spent Spirit Stones to power it, blocking True Person Qing Xuan’s attack.
• True Person Qing He stopped Qing Xuan from attacking again and accused him of violating sect rules by intervening in the tournament.
• True Lord Lingxiao, Qin Ruge, and other Core Formation True Persons supported True Person Qing He, and Qing Xuan left with Bai Ling, promising to accept punishment at Meditation Cliff.
• Bai Lan told Nan Xianshi that her Golden Bell Shield had suffered a great loss and asked for compensation.
• True Person Qing He declared the artifact severely damaged and let Bai Lan choose one treasure from the sect treasury, charging Qing Xuan’s Contribution Points.

Bai Lan eliminated Long Aotian and Bai Ling from the sect grand competition, then won first place among the Qi Refining cultivators. As True Person Qing He announced the rewards, Bai Lan recognized that many of the displayed defensive artifacts had been made from materials she had supplied.

• Jin Yao praised Bai Lan for warning her about True Person Qing Xuan, and the two agreed they could spar another time.
• Bai Lan defeated the remaining competitors and claimed first place, with Qing Ru, Nan Xianshi, and eight others completing the top ten.
• Spectators regretted losing Spirit Stones by betting against Bai Lan, while Bai Lan smiled, knowing she had paid shills to steer their bets.
• True Person Qing He had True Person Qing Xuan confined at Meditation Cliff for a year, leaving Bai Ling without her strongest backer.
• True Person Qing He announced that the top ten would receive a Foundation Establishment Pill and ten thousand Contribution Points, then displayed defensive artifacts that Bai Lan recognized as made from materials she had supplied.

After Bai Lan won the sect tournament, True Person Qing He announced defensive Spirit Artifact rewards and offered her the chance to choose a master. Bai Lan decided to pursue True Person Zi Ling’s Heavenly Tier Spear Art, then reloaded her save to the tournament’s final battle before choosing a master.

• True Person Qing He announced defensive Spirit Artifacts for the top thousand contestants and a magic artifact of their choice for the champion.
• Bai Lan realized the rewards were part of True Person Qing He’s preparations for a coming righteous-demonic war.
• True Person Qing He asked Bai Lan which Core Formation True Person she would accept as her master, and several elders tried to recruit her.
• True Person Zi Ling offered to teach Bai Lan a Heavenly Tier Spear Art if she became his disciple.
• Bai Lan saved after hearing the offer and planned to learn the art before reloading to sever their master-disciple bond.
• To avoid offending the elders while deciding, Bai Lan reloaded her save to the tournament’s final battle.

Bai Lan faked lingering injuries after defeating Qing Ru in the sect tournament, with Nan Xianshi helping conceal the act. At her residence, Bai Lan spun a tale of mistreatment by Qing Xuan that convinced Jin Yao, while Nan Xianshi recognized her deception.

• Bai Lan defeated Qing Ru after pretending to struggle, then knocked herself unconscious to make the victory appear hard-won.
• Nan Xianshi treated both fighters and told the Law Enforcement Hall disciples that Bai Lan's old injuries had not healed, then took her back to the outer peaks.
• The tournament's top three withdrew, so the elders postponed the awards ceremony and their plans to take disciples.
• At Bai Lan's residence, Nan Xianshi confronted her about the performance, but visitors Jin Yao, Jin Qianze, and Qi Xiaoru arrived before she could press further.
• Bai Lan claimed that Qing Xuan had damaged her meridians and left her ill, and Jin Yao believed her story while Nan Xianshi recognized the act.

After the competition, Bai Lan arranged for Gongsun Lian to gather opportunities in demonic cultivator territory and returned to the moment she chose True Person Zi Ling as her master. She became an inner sect disciple, received the Heavenly Tier Spear Art, and set her sights on the inner sect Library Pavilion.

• Bai Lan gave Gongsun Lian a Jade Slip listing more than thirty opportunities and resources in demonic cultivator territory, along with instructions to report gains and contact her before taking risks.
• Bai Lan used her save to return to the moment the Core Formation True Persons competed to accept her as a disciple.
• Bai Lan chose True Person Zi Ling, who gave her a Disciple Token for Lingxia Peak and promoted her to inner sect disciple.
• True Person Zi Ling introduced Bai Lan to her Senior Sisters Zhang Zhiman and Qing Ru after bringing her back to Lingxia Peak.
• True Person Zi Ling gave Bai Lan the Heavenly Tier Spear Art on a Jade Slip.

Bai Lan received a Heavenly Tier Spear Art from True Person Zi Ling and learned it came from Sangu Ravine, giving her a plausible explanation for finding it herself. She then used repeated save reloads to sweep the inner sect Library Pavilion for techniques, pill formulas, formation diagrams, and talismans.

• True Person Zi Ling gave Bai Lan a Heavenly Tier Spear Art and explained that she had found it in a sect ruin within Sangu Ravine.
• Bai Lan went to the inner sect Library Pavilion, where the elder noticed she had reached Qi Refining level eight and let her enter.
• Bai Lan surveyed the Library Pavilion’s manuals, pill formulas, formation diagrams, and talisman blueprints, noting which items she could afford with her Contribution Points.
• Bai Lan saved her progress and repeatedly reloaded it while memorizing Jade Slips throughout the Library Pavilion.
• Bai Lan continued studying formation diagrams and talismans, including a Third Tier Golden Light Array, a Fourth Tier Qimen Dunjia Array, and a Fourth Tier Five Thunder Talisman.

Bai Lan uncovered Lan Ning imprisoned behind a sealed barrier in the Library Pavilion and discovered that the seemingly ordinary librarian was a Nascent Soul cultivator. After reloading to avoid trouble, she resumed collecting the sect’s knowledge while considering how she might establish a sect in her Void Stone world.

• Bai Lan mastered the third floor’s pill formulas, formation diagrams, and talismans through repeated reloads.
• Bai Lan broke through a hidden barrier and found Lan Ning chained and tortured inside.
• The Library Pavilion’s old guardian appeared, suppressed Bai Lan with Nascent Soul-level divine sense, and demanded to know her connection to Lan Ning.
• Bai Lan reloaded, left the pavilion, and realized the Sect Master had secretly imprisoned Lan Ning there under the old man’s guard.
• Bai Lan considered using her amassed cultivation knowledge to establish a sect in her Void Stone world, but lacked the resources to do so.
• Bai Lan returned to studying the second-floor cultivation methods, while Long Aotian and Bai Ling had opportunities to obtain the Dragon Transformation Art and Illusory Mist Technique.

Bai Lan studied Illusory Mist Technique and the Maze Array, then decided she could use Long Aotian’s blood to cultivate his Dragon Transformation Technique. After thousands of save loads, she finished learning what she could from the Library Pavilion and left with two more divine abilities to record.

• Bai Lan considered combining Illusory Mist Technique with the Maze Array to trap enemies.
• Bai Lan reasoned that Long Aotian’s dragon blood could let her cultivate the Dragon Transformation Technique, and the system understood she planned to take some of his blood.
• Bai Lan used nearly eight thousand save loads to learn all the divine abilities she could plunder, leaving 373 techniques she could not yet exchange for.
• Bai Lan brought her final two Jade Slips to the Library Pavilion elder, who called the divine abilities trash, but she told him to record them.

After rewinding time, Bai Lan entered the sect treasury to claim her reward and took the magical treasures meant for Bai Ling and Long Aotian. As she prepared for the Five Sects Grand Competition, an angry young man called for her to stop.

• Bai Lan rewound time and spent the following fifteen days studying the Heavenly Tier Myriad Laws Roaming Spear Art.
• Bai Lan arrived at the sect treasury on the final day of the Five Sects Grand Competition and used her disciple token to enter.
• The system revealed that Bai Ling and Long Aotian were destined to obtain the Soul Piercer and Purple Firmament Seal from the treasury.
• Bai Lan took both magical treasures and told the system to charge True Person Qing Xuan for the Soul Piercer as compensation for the Golden Bell Shield.
• An angry young man shouted for Bai Lan to stop, but she ignored him and continued forward.

Bai Lan manipulated Xiao Tianqi and Ji Feng into fighting before the Five Sects Grand Competition moved to Coiled Dragon Canyon. Suspecting that the contestant Li Fen was Long Aotian in disguise, she publicly accused him of murdering the real Li Fen.

• Bai Lan claimed Long Aotian had forced her to target Jade Purity Peak, but Ji Feng exposed her lie and Xiao Tianqi denied wanting another fight.
• Bai Lan provoked Ji Feng into dragging Xiao Tianqi off to the duel platform.
• The Qi Refining stage competition began at Coiled Dragon Canyon, where contestants would compete by slaying demonic beasts.
• Bai Lan recognized that Li Fen’s aura resembled Long Aotian’s and learned that Long Aotian had killed Li Fen and taken his identity to enter the competition.
• Bai Lan accused Li Fen before True Lord Lingxiao, declaring that he was Long Aotian in disguise, while the impostor denied knowing her.

Bai Lan exposed Long Aotian, who had impersonated Li Fen to enter the Five Sect Tournament, but Long Aotian escaped with help from his Elderly Grandfather. As the Azure Sect prepared to replace the missing participant, True Lord Lingxiao explained the tournament rules to the remaining disciples.

• Bai Lan challenged Li Fen to demonstrate a Fireball Technique and identified him as Long Aotian after he instinctively guarded his Storage Bag.
• Long Aotian tried to break the flying vessel’s protective barrier, but True Lord Lingxiao subdued him until his Elderly Grandfather’s remnant soul intervened.
• Long Aotian escaped with Swift Wind Talismans, and True Lord Lingxiao ordered the disciples to treat him as an enemy and told Ji Feng to report the incident and find a replacement participant.
• Bai Lan explained that Long Aotian’s distinctive pose had made her suspect him, while True Lord Lingxiao told the disciples to focus on the Five Sect Tournament.
• True Lord Lingxiao explained that the five sects would send ten Qi Refining stage disciples into Coiled Dragon Canyon for ten days, where they would hunt demonic beasts and compete for tokens that could be stolen, though killing was forbidden.

Long Aotian fled after betraying the Azure Origin Sect and plotted to threaten Bai Lan by capturing her family. Meanwhile, Bai Ling joined the sect airship for the Five Sects Joint Competition with her Foundation Establishment-stage Divine Beast Phoenix, while Bai Lan and Nan Xianshi anticipated trouble from her.

• Long Aotian recovered his spiritual power with pills from Li Fen's Storage Bag and discovered Elderly Grandfather had fallen asleep for three to ten years.
• Long Aotian vowed to capture Bai Lan's relatives and use them to exact revenge, while two Core Formation cultivators from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion pursued him.
• Ji Feng brought Bai Ling aboard the sect airship, and True Lord Lingxiao approved her participation after hearing her Divine Beast Phoenix had advanced to Foundation Establishment-stage strength.
• Bai Ling reunited with Nangong Yuan, and they promised to fight side by side in the competition.
• Bai Lan and Nan Xianshi discussed Bai Ling's likely revenge and the threat posed by her Phoenix.

Bai Lan confronted Bai Ling over hiring a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion assassin to kill her, then told True Lord Lingxiao she would submit evidence after the Five Sects Grand Competition. She concealed her evidence while preparing to keep Bai Ling from scoring any points, and True Lord Lingxiao praised her for considering the bigger picture.

• Bai Ling showed Bai Lan her golden phoenix and threatened to have it defeat her, but Bai Lan publicly alluded to the assassin Bai Ling had hired.
• True Lord Lingxiao questioned Bai Lan about the assassin, and Bai Lan told him Bai Ling had ordered the attack.
• Bai Lan hesitated to present evidence because it would expose that she had disguised herself as Bai Ling, so she asked the system to forge a voice recording on a talisman.
• Bai Lan told True Lord Lingxiao she would take the evidence to the Law Enforcement Hall after the Five Sects Grand Competition to avoid disrupting the event.
• Bai Lan resolved to win first place and make Bai Ling finish last, while True Lord Lingxiao criticized Ji Feng for not considering the bigger picture.

True Lord Lingxiao and Ji Feng discussed Bai Lan’s talent and her wish to join the Law Enforcement Hall as the five sects gathered at Coiled Dragon Canyon. Bai Lan suspected that True Lord Yunyang had come to attack them, and a dimmed Sound Transmission Talisman left True Lord Lingxiao and Ji Feng wary of him.

• True Lord Lingxiao praised Bai Lan’s tournament performance and said she could become half his disciple by joining the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Ji Feng teased True Lord Lingxiao about favoring Bai Lan, while True Lord Lingxiao recalled how she had deliberately taken injuries in her final match.
• The five sects gathered at Coiled Dragon Canyon, where the Joyous Union Sect’s early Nascent Soul Sect Master, True Lord Yunyang, made the elders uneasy.
• Bai Lan asked the system about True Lord Yunyang and learned he was one of Bai Ling’s future harem members and had killed the Joyous Union Sect’s Sect Master.
• Bai Lan suspected True Lord Yunyang planned to attack the gathered cultivators, and Ji Feng returned with a dimmed Sound Transmission Talisman as he and True Lord Lingxiao grew wary.

Bai Lan reloaded her save and persuaded a hidden Nascent Soul ancestor to accompany the trip to Coiled Dragon Canyon, where True Lord Yunyang planned to attack the other sects. During the journey, she exposed Long Aotian, who fled under the cover of the Elderly Grandfather’s pressure.

• Bai Lan reloaded her save and went to the Library Pavilion to warn its gatekeeper, a disguised Nascent Soul ancestor, about True Lord Yunyang’s plot.
• Bai Lan made a Heart Demon Vow, and the ancestor agreed to accompany the cultivators to Coiled Dragon Canyon.
• Bai Lan arrived aboard the flying ship with the ancestor secretly following behind it.
• Bai Lan accused Li Fen of being Long Aotian, and Long Aotian fled after the Elderly Grandfather released his divine pressure.
• The Nascent Soul ancestor resisted the pressure long enough to mark Long Aotian with his divine sense.

Bai Lan’s group entered Coiled Dragon Canyon, where True Lord Yunyang’s formations threatened the four sects, but Hanxu Zi revealed himself as an Azure Origin Sect Nascent Soul cultivator and broke both formations. The sects were left safer, while Yunyang’s plan was thwarted.

• The Nascent Soul ancestor followed the Azure Origin Sect’s flying ship and recognized the danger posed by Long Aotian’s remnant soul.
• Ji Feng returned with Bai Ling and her divine beast, and the group traveled into Coiled Dragon Canyon.
• The ancestor detected the Heavenly Heart Soul Locking Array and the Two Forms Spirit Guiding Array surrounding the canyon.
• Hanxu Zi destroyed Yunyang’s formations, and Bai Lan sheltered herself behind her Golden Bell Shield as the cultivators panicked.
• True Lord Yunyang searched for Hanxu Zi, who mocked him and revealed that he was from the Azure Origin Sect.
• True Lord Lingxiao and the other sect elders relaxed when they learned Hanxu Zi was on their side.

Bai Lan exposed Bai Ling’s ties to True Lord Yunyang and Lan Ning to Hanxu Zi, prompting him to investigate her. With Yunyang gone and his formations broken, the Five Sects Grand Competition resumed, and Bai Ling challenged Bai Lan before they entered Coiled Dragon Canyon.

• Hanxu Zi questioned Bai Lan about Yunyang and Bai Ling, and she claimed her vanished friend had witnessed their intimate relationship.
• Bai Lan told Hanxu Zi that Bai Ling was close to Lan Ning and urged him to investigate, and he vowed she would die if the claims were true.
• The four sects’ elders pressured the Joyous Union Sect to join the competition after Yunyang left, and its representative reluctantly agreed.
• The five sects’ Qi Refining disciples received point tokens, with points awarded for killing demonic beasts according to their tier.
• Bai Ling told Bai Lan she would wait for her inside the formation before entering the competition.

Bai Lan entered the Five Sects Grand Competition and ambushed Nangong Yuan, taking his token and Storage Bag before using him to lure Bai Ling to her location. She left Nangong Yuan tied upside down from a tree and threatened to use him for spear practice if Bai Ling did not arrive.

• Bai Lan entered the Defense Array, concealed her aura with the Hidden Spirit Robe, and located Nangong Yuan while searching for Bai Ling.
• Bai Lan asked Hanxu Zi to confirm that she could seize a fellow disciple’s token and Storage Bag, then attacked Nangong Yuan.
• Bai Lan overwhelmed Nangong Yuan with her spear and Soul Piercer, took his token and Storage Bag, and tied him to a tree with a Spirit Binding Rope.
• Bai Lan contacted Bai Ling through Nangong Yuan’s Sound Transmission Talisman and ordered her to meet in the southeastern part of Coiled Dragon Canyon within half a quarter-hour.
• Bai Lan told the bound Nangong Yuan that she would use him for spear practice if Bai Ling did not arrive, and dismissed his warning about True Person Qing Xuan.