Chapter Summaries

Bai Xiaowen led Li Shuyi and Han Xu to the Heart-Cleansing Pool to find the woman surnamed Gu, but the Wild Dog Daoist and Taishan Sect fighters tracked them there. The sect’s fighters attacked while calling for reinforcements from other righteous factions.

• Bai Xiaowen used Yi-Yi and Er-Er to lure the righteous martial artists away, then led Li Shuyi and Han Xu toward the Heart-Cleansing Pool.
• Bai Xiaowen showed them the concealed entrance to the White Clan Ancestral Land and explained that Changsun Ming had been fooled by his decoy painting.
• The trio searched the cold pool for the woman surnamed Gu or a hidden mechanism but found nothing.
• The Wild Dog Daoist and a group of Taishan Sect fighters confronted the trio after tracking their scent back to the pool.
• Luo Shizhen accused Bai Xiaowen of killing Changsun Ming and He Xiyuan and defiling their remains, while Bai Xiaowen admitted to killing them in revenge for his family.
• A Taishan Sect fighter revealed that a Banner-Floral Rocket had summoned reinforcements, and the sect members closed in to capture the trio.

Gu Yulian confronted Luo Shizhen and the Taishan Sect disciples with the Blood-Reversing Heartburn Melody and deadly ribbon techniques. After the Taishan group withdrew, she questioned Bai Xiaowen, who said he had come because the Blood God Palace had abducted his family.

• Gu Yulian played the Blood-Reversing Heartburn Melody, and Luo Shizhen broke its influence with a shout before one disciple collapsed with a minor injury.
• Luo Shizhen identified Gu Yulian as Yin Fei's disciple, and she warned the Taishan Sect group to leave.
• Gu Yulian killed a Taishan Sect disciple who had insulted her master and repelled the elder who charged at her.
• Luo Shizhen led the Taishan Sect group away rather than risk further losses against Gu Yulian.
• Gu Yulian asked Bai Xiaowen why he had finally come, and he told her the Blood God Palace had abducted his family.

Bai Xiaowen confronted Gu Yulian about orchestrating the events that framed him as a Blood God Palace spy, and she admitted his deductions were correct. Gu Yulian tried to recruit him by pointing toward a powerful suspect in his family's murder, while Bai Xiaowen maintained that he could still oppose her.

• Bai Xiaowen accused Gu Yulian of manipulating events at Heart-Cleansing Pool and Jieshi Valley to frame him and his companions as allies of the Blood God Palace, and Gu Yulian confirmed he was right.
• Li Shuyi challenged Gu Yulian's assumption that they would join her, while Bai Xiaowen threatened to kill her or another Blood God Palace leader and return to the Righteous Alliance.
• Bai Xiaowen revealed that Bai Rui had a Return Scroll, and Li Shuyi showed Gu Yulian an identical talisman to prove Bai Rui could escape danger.
• Gu Yulian urged Bai Xiaowen to abandon the struggle between good and evil, claiming the Boundless Sword Sect's Sect Master might be behind his family's murder.

Bai Xiaowen joined the Blood God Palace’s faction and agreed to help Gu Yulian secure control of it in exchange for her help avenging his father. As the Righteous Alliance’s forces approached, Gu Yulian led Bai Xiaowen and his companions through a hidden passage to the Armory door.

• Gu Yulian invited Bai Xiaowen to join the Blood God Palace, and he accepted, becoming hostile with the Righteous faction and gaining her Friendly affection.
• Bai Xiaowen and Gu Yulian agreed to be equal partners: he would help her gain control of the Blood God Palace, and she would help him take revenge.
• Gu Yulian revealed that Yin Fei had left months earlier and that none of the seven division leaders supported her claim to command the palace.
• Bai Xiaowen accepted the Lord of the Divine Palace quest to help Gu Yulian win the support of more than half of the seven divisions.
• When experts from the Righteous Alliance approached, Gu Yulian led Bai Xiaowen, Han Xu, and Li Shuyi through an underwater gate into a secret passage.
• Gu Yulian opened the way to a massive bronze door, and Bai Xiaowen realized the Blood God Palace’s Armory lay behind it.

Gu Yulian opened the Blood God Palace Armory and showed Bai Xiaowen its martial arts, explaining why she refused to learn the Blood God Scripture. Bai Xiaowen agreed to help her take control of the palace in exchange for choosing an art, and they headed toward the main hall, where Gu Yulian said Bai Rui was safe.

• Gu Yulian turned the Golden Roulette's pointer through the correct seven positions, opening the armory for Bai Xiaowen and the White Phoenix Squad.
• Bai Xiaowen inspected the martial arts carved on the pillars and asked about learning internal cultivation and the Broken Water Sword Technique.
• Gu Yulian revealed that the Blood God Scripture was hidden in the jade bed but said she would not learn it because Yin Fei had forbidden her.
• Gu Yulian told Bai Xiaowen that the man Yin Fei loved had killed her parents, then offered the squad one martial art each if they helped her take control of the Blood God Palace.
• Bai Xiaowen accepted Gu Yulian's offer, and she led the group up a secret staircase to the main hall behind the palace lord's throne, assuring him that Bai Rui was unharmed.

Gu Yulian brought Bai Xiaowen and Qiao Rui to Sword Discussion Cliff, where Blood God Palace’s seven division heads confronted her over the vacant leadership. With the Seven Righteous Sects advancing, the masters demanded that Gu Yulian prove her claim or surrender the Armory Key, and Bai Xiaowen proposed settling the dispute without fighting.

• Gu Yulian reunited Bai Xiaowen with Qiao Rui and learned from Steward Qin that the Seven Righteous Sects had advanced into Blood God Palace territory.
• Qin Hui led Gu Yulian and her companions to Sword Discussion Cliff to meet Sheng Zhiyu and see his new mechanical puppet.
• Ji Ming, Kuang Wei, Ying Jianfan, Kang Qin, and Ji Mingjue joined the gathering and challenged Gu Yulian’s authority to lead Blood God Palace.
• The division heads demanded that Gu Yulian hand over the Armory Key and its entry words or defeat every challenger, while her followers called for the strongest to rule.
• Bai Xiaowen warned that fighting among themselves would benefit their enemies and proposed settling the leadership dispute with words instead of weapons.

Gu Yulian accepted a contest of martial challenges to settle who would become Blood God Palace’s new palace master, with her side choosing the rules for each match. Bai Xiaowen began the first challenge against Ji Ming, a test of who could take longer to fall from a cliff, and prepared a cloak before the jump.

• Bai Xiaowen proposed a series of contests in the division masters’ specialties, and Gu Yulian agreed to compete.
• Gu Yulian stipulated that her side would choose the rules for each challenge, and Ying Jianfan and the other division masters accepted.
• Qin Hui declined to challenge Gu Yulian, leaving six divisions and six matches.
• Gu Yulian chose Bai Xiaowen for the lightness-skills challenge, and Ji Ming raced up the cliff ahead of him.
• Bai Xiaowen set the rules: both competitors would jump from the clifftop, and whoever landed last without touching the cliff would win.
• Bai Xiaowen climbed to the top, changed into his Tribal Feather Cloak, and prepared to begin the fall with Ji Ming.

Bai Xiaowen’s side won the cliff-descent contest and Qiao Rui defeated Ying Jianfan in a sword match by using Soulwalk to avoid his strikes. Kang Qin then challenged Bai Xiaowen to a hidden-weapons contest, leaving the next match about to begin.

• Ji Ming tried to force Bai Xiaowen to land first during their descent, but Bai Xiaowen used the Tribal Feather Cloak to evade him and landed ten seconds after him.
• Bai Xiaowen reminded Ying Jianfan that the agreed contest was about who landed last, and Ji Ming accepted his loss.
• Bai Xiaowen proposed a sword match in which neither fighter could dodge, parry, or block, and Ying Jianfan agreed to compete.
• Gu Yulian caught Xin Li’s forcefully thrown Blackglow Sword with her bare hand and passed it to Qiao Rui.
• Ying Jianfan’s sword strikes passed through Qiao Rui while she used Soulwalk, and she placed her sword at his neck, prompting him to concede.
• Kang Qin challenged Bai Xiaowen to a hidden-weapons contest, and he accepted.

Bai Xiaowen beat Kang Qin in a long-range hidden-weapon challenge by using Winter's Wrath Wand to extinguish a candle in one shot. Gu Yulian's side secured a third victory, and Sheng Zhiyu challenged Bai Xiaowen to demonstrate his skill in the Mechanism Puppet Art.

• Bai Xiaowen set up a candle behind an archery target three hundred meters away and challenged Kang Qin to extinguish it without hitting the target.
• Kang Qin used two Wishful Pearls to strike the candle after her first pellet curved around the target, completing the challenge in two attempts.
• Bai Xiaowen fired a Frost Shard from Winter's Wrath Wand, and its corrected trajectory curved around the target and extinguished the candle in one shot.
• Kang Qin protested that Bai Xiaowen had not used a hidden weapon, but Ying Jianfan calmed her and Bai Xiaowen announced Gu Yulian's side had won three rounds.
• Sheng Zhiyu challenged Bai Xiaowen to show his skill in the Mechanism Puppet Art.

Bai Xiaowen challenged Sheng Zhiyu to a puppet-controlling contest and argued that his summoned corpse creatures qualified as puppets. The contest began with Sheng Zhiyu's Mechanical Beasts attacking Butcher, leaving Bai Xiaowen surprised by the Wood Tiger's strength.

• Sheng Zhiyu said he opposed Gu Yulian becoming palace master through trickery and condemned Bai Xiaowen as an outsider.
• Gu Yulian used the Six Desires Dance to quiet the Blood God Palace members, but Sheng Zhiyu restored their clarity with his voice.
• Bai Xiaowen proposed a puppet fight, and Sheng Zhiyu accepted, bringing out four wooden Mechanical Beasts.
• Bai Xiaowen summoned Butcher and then a crowd of corpse-based creatures, insisting they counted as puppets under Sheng Zhiyu's rules.
• Sheng Zhiyu's Mechanical Beasts attacked in formation, and the Wood Tiger struck Butcher with enough force to make him stagger.

Bai Xiaowen defeated Sheng Zhiyu in the puppet contest by discovering and burning the threads that controlled Sheng’s Mechanical Beasts. With four of the six challenges over, Kuang Wei challenged Bai to a real one-on-one martial arts fight, putting Gu Yulian’s claim to the Blood God Palace leadership on the line.

• Sheng Zhiyu’s four Mechanical Beasts overwhelmed Bai Xiaowen’s summoned creatures with their strength and hidden mechanisms.
• Bai Xiaowen spotted the Celestial Silkworm Silk threads connecting Sheng Zhiyu to his puppets and used crimson flame to burn them, leaving the Mechanical Beasts powerless.
• Sheng Zhiyu conceded the puppet contest, and the assembled heroes accepted that Bai Xiaowen had surpassed his control of puppets.
• Ji Mingjue declined a poison contest, explaining that her poisons could not harm Bai Xiaowen’s Corpse Monster.
• Kuang Wei challenged Bai Xiaowen to fight one on one without limits or restrictions, promising to accept Gu Yulian as palace master if Bai won.

Gu Yulian accepted Thunderclap Hand Kuang Wei’s challenge and endured his attacks without retreating, using Jade Tempering Formula to absorb and reflect his strongest strike. Kuang Wei admitted defeat, leaving Gu Yulian one step closer to becoming Blood God Palace master.

• As Blood God Palace members demanded a genuine martial contest, Gu Yulian accepted Kuang Wei’s challenge.
• Gu Yulian refused Kuang Wei’s offer to give her three moves and instead vowed to defend against his three attacks without retreating.
• Kuang Wei’s first Floating Thunder Art strike failed to harm Gu Yulian when she met it with her palm.
• Kuang Wei unleashed Feathered Serpent Palm, but Gu Yulian absorbed most of its force and reflected it back, injuring him.
• After his attributes fell and his Floating Thunder Art was impaired, Kuang Wei declined to make a third move and admitted defeat.

After Gu Yulian defeated the seven department masters and claimed the right to succeed as palace master, Qin Hui rejected the outcome and revealed a force of three hundred Black Guards. Ji Mingjue’s Qi-Reversal Powder turned the tide, but Qin Hui then attacked with the Blood God Scripture, leaving Gu Yulian’s succession in immediate danger.

• Gu Yulian’s victory over Kuang Wei silenced the Blood God Palace members, but Qin Hui objected and accused her of causing A-Su’s death.
• The department masters refused to join Qin Hui, so he summoned three hundred Black Guards armed with Qi-Breaking Crossbows and demanded the Armory Key.
• Gu Yulian tried to command the Black Guards to stand down, while Qin Hui declared that they were loyal only to him and insulted Wei Siqin.
• Ji Mingjue revealed that she had poisoned the gathering with Qi-Reversal Powder, and Ten Thousand Snakes Valley’s fighters surrounded Qin Hui and the Blood God Peak elites.
• As the poison weakened the Black Guards, Qin Hui ordered them to fire; bolts struck the helpless crowd while he killed seven servants and revealed that he had mastered the Blood God Scripture.

Gu Yulian secured the department masters’ conditional recognition as Palace Lord, but Bai Xiaowen realized the side quest required their sincere support. She prepared to lead the Blood God Palace against the Seven Righteous Sects, then called Bai Xiaowen over with an urgent request.

• Qin Hui escaped with his followers, while Gu Yulian told Ji Mingjue to treat the wounded and distribute the Qi-Reversal Powder antidote.
• The six department masters recognized Gu Yulian’s claim after Ji Mingjue challenged them, but Ying Jianfan and Kang Qin said they had not truly accepted her because she had won through a trick.
• Bai Xiaowen concluded that the quest required more than half of the department masters to sincerely support Gu Yulian, and that defeating the Seven Righteous Sects might be necessary.
• Gu Yulian defended her qualifications and promised to step down if she failed, while the department masters agreed to follow her orders until the Seven Righteous Sects withdrew.
• Gu Yulian called Bai Xiaowen over to handle an urgent matter.

Gu Yulian appointed Bai Xiaowen a Divine Palace Envoy and tasked him with hunting down the traitor Qin Hui, who had fled with armed followers. Bai Xiaowen and the White Phoenix Squad pursued him without help, but their first aerial search found no trace of him.

• Gu Yulian gave Bai Xiaowen the Blood God Edict and ordered him to kill Qin Hui before he could contact the Seven Righteous Sects.
• Bai Xiaowen refused Gu Yulian's offer of help, accepted the S+ quest, and set out with the White Phoenix Squad.
• Gu Yulian ordered the department masters to raise defenses and search for Qin Hui, while Ji Mingjue remained at Blood God Peak to help her.
• Bai Xiaowen explained to Li Shuyi and Qiao Rui that refusing help would preserve the quest's difficulty, rewards, and the squad's standing.
• The squad learned Qin Hui had passed through the checkpoint between Blood God Peak and Heavenly Mechanism Peak, then found no trace of him at the next checkpoint.
• Qiao Rui searched the surrounding area with Falcon Spirit, but the search ended without finding Qin Hui or his followers.

Bai Xiaowen discovered that Kitz had awakened stronger and gained equipment slots, then led the White Phoenix Squad into the secret passage to search for Qin Hui's forces. After passing one patrol with a bluff, they faced a second patrol whose members began questioning their cover.

• Bai Xiaowen reasoned that Qin Hui and the missing Black Guards were hiding in the Armory Secret Passage and secretly led the squad inside.
• Bai Xiaowen summoned Kitz, who had awakened after months of sleep with improved attributes and new weapon and upper-body equipment slots.
• Bai Xiaowen equipped Kitz with a trench coat and a one-handed sword before the squad continued through the passage.
• Bai Xiaowen used a password to fool the first patrol, and the squad passed without a fight.
• Bai Xiaowen exchanged the correct password with a second patrol, but a Black Guard noticed the squad had four people and asked which elder they served.

Bai Xiaowen and his team killed three Black Guards after Li Siyuan saw through Bai Xiaowen’s disguise. They continued toward the Armory, and Bai Xiaowen inferred that the commander was sending patrols to guard the passage entrance, leaving fewer enemies farther inside.

• Li Siyuan tested Bai Xiaowen’s claim that they served Blood God Peak, so Bai Xiaowen used Intimidation to start a fight.
• Rageclaw, Li Shuyi, Han Xu, Kitz, Delifa, and Butcher helped Bai Xiaowen’s team defeat and kill Li Siyuan and the other two Black Guards.
• The team gained more than two thousand Psionic Points, but Bai Xiaowen found nothing useful in their Silver Treasure Chest.
• Bai Xiaowen led the team toward the Armory, bluffing past three patrols with the password before stopping them to hide.
• Bai Xiaowen concluded that the Black Guards’ commander believed they were scouts trying to escape, so Li Shuyi realized that waiting could leave fewer guards deeper in the passage.

Bai Xiaowen and the White Phoenix Squad were discovered by Qiu Hai and a force of Black Guards while hiding in the corridors. They attacked Qiu Hai and his troops, slowing the elder and fighting to isolate him from reinforcements.

• Qiao Rui and Bai Xiaowen waited as Black Guards moved away, then heard Qiu Hai arrive to investigate the water valve.
• Qiu Hai and two groups of Black Guards found Bai Xiaowen, Qiao Rui, Li Shuyi, and Han Xu, and Qiu Hai identified them as enemies of his Lord.
• Bai Xiaowen ordered the squad to attack before more Black Guards could arrive.
• Butcher's Rotting Toxin and Bai Xiaowen's Frost Shards slowed Qiu Hai while Qiao Rui's sonic attacks reduced his Life Value.
• Li Shuyi and Han Xu fought the Black Guards as Qiao Rui healed Han Xu, while Bai Xiaowen's summoned creatures blocked reinforcements.
• The squad concentrated its attacks on Qiu Hai, making his defeat the key to winning the battle.

Bai Xiaowen and Qiao Rui fought Blood God Peak elders Qiu Hai and Hong Kun, whose combined attacks threatened to overwhelm them. After weakening Qiu Hai and landing a powerful punch, Bai Xiaowen left him vulnerable, and Delifa struck him through the chest with her spear.

• Qiu Hai used Yin Aura Shield to absorb Butcher's attack, then struck Bai Xiaowen twice with Bone-Melting Cotton Palm before Qiao Rui trapped him with Mind Cage.
• Hong Kun arrived and attacked Bai Xiaowen's summoned creatures with his steel staff, while Qiu Hai escaped the Mind Cage and rushed toward Bai Xiaowen.
• Qiao Rui, Delifa, and Bai Xiaowen weakened and stunned Qiu Hai, then Bai Xiaowen struck him with a flaming punch that sent him flying.
• Hong Kun swept the summoned creatures aside to save Qiu Hai, but Delifa flew in and drove her spear through Qiu Hai's chest.

The White Phoenix Squad killed the Blood God Peak commanders Qiu Hai and Hong Kun, then advanced to the Armory and confirmed that Qin Hui was inside. As Bai Xiaowen and Qiao Rui searched for a way to enter through the Armory’s air and supply pipes, both declared that they had found something.

• Qiu Hai killed Delifa with a deadly counterattack before the White Phoenix Squad surrounded and killed him and Hong Kun.
• Li Shuyi cut down the weakened Black Guards, and the Squad defeated Hong Kun after he unleashed a final area attack.
• The Squad collected treasure and recovered while traveling toward the Armory, where they found Qin Hui’s Black Guards keeping watch outside.
• The Squad killed the guards, questioned two survivors, and confirmed that Qin Hui was cultivating inside the Armory.
• Bai Xiaowen and Qiao Rui searched for pipes around the sealed bronze doors while Li Shuyi and Han Xu opened treasure chests.
• Bai Xiaowen and Qiao Rui simultaneously announced that they had found something.