Chapter Summaries

Bai Xiaowen arrived at the Blue Star Platform disguised as an Elite Tier Evolver named Lu Wang and learned about its factions and layout. Quick tried to recruit him into the Radiance Society, but Bai Xiaowen declined for now.

• Bai Xiaowen concealed his Lord Tier status and adopted the name Lu Wang before entering the Blue Star Platform.
• Bai Xiaowen met Quick and Nina at the Radiance Society's reception desk and used True Eye to inspect Nina's appearance-enhancing disguise.
• Quick explained that the Blue Star Platform was a small city controlled by three major powers: the Divine Court, Pan-Asia, and the Radiance Society.
• Quick urged Bai Xiaowen to join a faction so he could train in territory with abundant Psionic Particles, but Bai Xiaowen declined and said he would decide after learning more.

Bai Xiaowen explored the Evolver Platform and learned how its equipment market worked from Steel Thorn, who invited him to join the Mutual Aid Society. As Steel Thorn asked him to enter the society’s territory, the Spirit Realm Rules notified Bai Xiaowen that an unknown being had requested entry to his own territory.

• Quick urged Bai Xiaowen to join the Radiance Society, but Bai Xiaowen left the registration desk to explore the Evolver Platform.
• Bai Xiaowen examined equipment listings and noticed that Evolver gear was described by qualities such as hardness, sharpness, and Spirit Force amplification.
• Steel Thorn warned Bai Xiaowen that roadside stall listings omitted important details and explained why the Clearwind Sword was a poor choice for a newcomer.
• Steel Thorn invited Bai Xiaowen to join the Mutual Aid Society and revealed that membership required depositing Spirit Crystals.
• The Spirit Realm Rules informed Bai Xiaowen that an unknown being had requested entry to his territory.

Bai Xiaowen returned from the Evolver Platform to his territory, where Cecilia, Li Shuyi, and Zhen Mi described how advancing had changed their abilities. He ended by reassuring Zhen Mi and offering to teach her cultivation.

• Bai Xiaowen granted Cecilia and Li Shuyi permission to enter his territory, then explored the Evolver Platform and learned that staying there cost Spirit Crystals.
• After receiving the platform fee notification, Bai Xiaowen entered his territory coordinates and teleported back.
• Cecilia explained that she had used the Star River Chart's Stringless Bow to fight through several trial stages before stopping at a Boss Tier.
• Li Shuyi described using sword qi techniques from the Flower-Washing Collection to advance through several stages before being overwhelmed by a Boss Tier and Elite Tiers.
• Zhen Mi reached level 11 and gained Spirit Force Value, but her former skills had become bodily instincts and she could not yet use her Spirit Force.
• Bai Xiaowen told Zhen Mi that her advancement gave her a foundation for cultivation and offered to teach her the Inner Vision Technique.

Bai Xiaowen helped Zhen Mi begin studying the Great Peace Essentials and activated the Novice Lord Tutorial after establishing his territory. The tutorial left him facing the need to build a Territory Shield and Plane Portal for White Phoenix Fief.

• Bai Xiaowen taught Zhen Mi the Inner Vision Technique and gave her the Great Peace Scripture to study, allowing her to pursue a Lord Tier Daoist profession.
• Kitz and more than three thousand Skeleton Soldiers cleared trees and stockpiled lumber while Zhen Mi directed them to wait for Bai Xiaowen to choose the city site.
• Bai Xiaowen activated the Novice Lord Tutorial and bound the territory's Space Stone to his Lord Token, turning it into a solid Territory Token.
• Bai Xiaowen named the territory White Phoenix Fief in memory of the disbanded White Phoenix Team, and the name appeared on the token.
• The Spirit Realm Rules identified a Territory Shield and Plane Portal as urgently needed facilities, and Bai Xiaowen began investigating how to build them.

Bai Xiaowen activated White Phoenix Fief’s Plane Portal and joined the Blue Star Lords’ Group under a concealed identity. As veteran lords offered him help and a possible trade, he considered their proposals.

• Bai Xiaowen spent 1,000 Spirit Crystals to activate the Plane Portal, allowing White Phoenix Fief’s Evolvers to travel to the Evolver Plane.
• Bai Xiaowen learned that the Blue Star Lords’ Group allowed communication and trade offers, but transactions had to be completed in person on the safe Evolver Platform.
• Bai Xiaowen joined the group as Lu Wang and hid his fief’s name and details after editing his profile.
• Taizong and Candice welcomed Lu Wang, while Bai Xiaowen joked that he was fifteen and drew teasing replies from Candice.
• Candice offered Lu Wang Flower Spirits for free if they met, and Taizong offered to lend him builders to make bricks and start his main city.

Bai Xiaowen and his companions chose the Five Elements Formation for their Territory Shield but lacked the materials to build it, so they planned to search the Evolver Plane while keeping their territory independent. As they prepared, Bai Xiaowen organized construction in the territory, and Qiao Rui arrived after completing a music-focused trial.

• Bai Xiaowen left the Blue Star Lords' Group after its members probed for his Territory Coordinates, then admitted Han Xu to the territory.
• Bai Xiaowen compared three shield formations with his companions, and they chose the Five Elements Formation and its required materials.
• Bai Xiaowen's team rejected trading with other territories or becoming a vassal, and planned to explore the Evolver Plane for materials after Qiao Rui arrived.
• Bai Xiaowen directed undead laborers and used his knowledge of construction and smelting to organize the city's development.
• Qiao Rui arrived two days later and explained that her trial had required her to master ancient Chinese instruments through the Guangling Secret Score.

Bai Xiaowen and his companions compared their newly learned professions and worked out how their territory's population limit related to qi consumption. After planning to keep their lord identity and Territory Coordinates secure until the Territory Shield was established, they began their first exploration of the Evolver Plane.

• Qiao Rui, Li Shuyi, Cecilia, Han Xu, and Bai Xiaowen shared the skills and roles they had gained from their professional manuals.
• Bai Xiaowen learned that White Phoenix Fief's 20-million population limit measured ordinary people, while Awakened Ones, monsters, and Evolvers used many times more capacity.
• Bai Xiaowen explained that lord authorities could teleport territorial armies between worlds, and his companions discussed the advantages of Evolver lords.
• Qiao Rui warned that Star Alliance factions might identify Lu Wang as Bai Xiaowen, so Bai Xiaowen decided to limit outside contact until the Five Elements Formation of the Territory Shield was complete.
• Bai Xiaowen assigned Zhen Mi to oversee construction of the main city, then took his four companions through the Plane Portal to begin their first Evolver Plane exploration.

Bai Xiaowen entered the Evolver Spirit Realm Plane with Cecilia, but spatial displacement separated them. After learning the plane's rules and arriving on the Cangzhou Ancient Road, Bai Xiaowen headed toward a passing caravan for help finding his way.

• Bai Xiaowen arranged for his companions to mark the territorial monument, left Kitz to help Zhen Mi manage the skeletal laborers, and entered the plane with Cecilia.
• Bai Xiaowen arrived in the wilderness alone and learned that the plane was an alternate-history Song Dynasty setting where Demons ran rampant.
• Bai Xiaowen learned that Evolvers had no main quests, could loot corpses and gather resources, and had to return to their entry point to leave the plane.
• Bai Xiaowen found a broken stele marking Ancient Sophora Town but could not determine which way to go along the overgrown Cangzhou Ancient Road.
• Bai Xiaowen spotted an approaching caravan, disguised himself as a bedraggled traveler, and went to ask its members for directions.

Bai Xiaowen joined a caravan traveling toward Cangzhou and learned about the strength of the natives and the rumors surrounding Ancient Sophora Town. He discovered that the Spirit Realm Rules no longer altered his appearance, explaining why the young lady had been unusually kind to him.

• Bai Xiaowen asked to travel with the caravan, and the young lady persuaded Manager Chen to let him ride in the cargo cart.
• Bai Xiaowen used the Eye of Evolution to identify the Fine-Woven Plain Brocade and assessed the caravan's strength and the likely power of demons.
• The caravan chose to spend the night in Ancient Sophora Town despite rumors that it was haunted by ghosts.
• The young lady arranged a room for Bai Xiaowen, who discovered that natives saw his true appearance and sighed that being handsome was a sin.

Bai Xiaowen met Chen Rong, who exposed his disguise and recruited him to fight the demons haunting Ancient Sophora Town. He accepted her offer and unlocked an elite side quest, while Chen Rong withheld the Spiritual Sense Art until the demons were dealt with.

• A maidservant summoned Bai Xiaowen to meet Chen Rong, and he entered her room wary of the invitation.
• Chen Rong confronted Bai Xiaowen for faking distress to join her family's caravan, and he scanned her profile and improvised a cover story.
• Bai Xiaowen claimed to be a wandering Taoist trained by the Grand Void Adept, and Chen Rong explained that Spiritual Sense had revealed his cultivation.
• Chen Rong invited Bai Xiaowen to help exterminate the demons of Ancient Sophora Town and offered to teach him the Spiritual Sense Art afterward.
• Bai Xiaowen accepted, triggering the A-tier elite side quest Haunted Market Town, and Chen Rong began discussing a plan to subdue the demons.

Bai Xiaowen and Chen Rong set a trap for the demon haunting Ancient Sophora Town, and Bai Xiaowen followed the bewitched travelers to the abandoned Ancient Buddha Temple. Four hideous ghosts appeared there, while the travelers continued toward them under the spell.

• Chen Rong told Bai Xiaowen that outsiders vanished around each full moon and explained that she planned to use her caravan to lure out the demon.
• An inn attendant warned Bai Xiaowen to lock his doors and ignore any sounds during the night.
• When mournful zither and flute music bewitched the travelers, Bai Xiaowen resisted its illusion with the Eye of Evolution but pretended to be under its influence.
• Bai Xiaowen followed twelve other travelers and caravan attendants out of Ancient Sophora Town toward the western wilderness.
• The group reached the ruined Ancient Buddha Temple, where four gray ghosts appeared and the bewitched travelers hurried toward them.

Bai Xiaowen discovered that his Eye of Evolution could temporarily replicate and seal another fighter’s technique, letting him use the Seven Phantoms Chain Slash to kill a Long-Tongued Ghost. As the crowd turned violent under the Demon’s control, he urged the Chen Caravan martial masters to knock them unconscious while they searched for the hidden enemy.

• Chen Rong warned Bai Xiaowen that the real culprit had not appeared and asked him to protect the ordinary people while the Chen Caravan martial masters fought the Long-Tongued Ghosts.
• Bai Xiaowen’s Eye of Evolution analyzed and sealed a martial master’s Seven Phantoms Chain Slash, and he used the replicated technique to kill a Long-Tongued Ghost.
• Bai Xiaowen discovered a Wandering Soul Ash Crystal among a ghost’s remains and found that he could collect materials from ghosts killed by others.
• The sound of the qin and xiao roused the charmed workers and pedestrians, who attacked Bai Xiaowen and the martial masters.
• Bai Xiaowen knocked one attacker unconscious and told the martial masters to incapacitate the controlled people until they eliminated the Demon.

Bai Xiaowen and the Chen martial artists confronted the Wood-and-Stone Twin Demons after a demon’s Yin Sha Wind weakened the caravan guards. Chen Rong and Chen Meng joined the fight, and the chapter ended with Chen Meng empowered by a talisman and striking at the demons.

• Bai Xiaowen knocked out two bewitched caravan workers before a Chen martial artist sealed the others’ meridians with Astral Qi.
• The demon behind the attack unleashed Yin Sha Wind, but Bai Xiaowen resisted its effects while the Chen martial artists were slowed and chilled.
• The Wood Demon and Stone Demon emerged from the Ancient Buddha Temple, and Chen Rong warned Bai Xiaowen that a stronger demon was likely hiding behind them.
• Chen Rong decided to fight the twin demons while Bai Xiaowen covered her, then descended from above as Chen Meng arrived on horseback.
• Chen Rong placed a talisman on Chen Meng, whose aura surged before he sent a crimson blade of Astral Qi at the twin demons.

Chen Rong and Chen Meng battled the Wood-and-Stone Twin Demons while Bai Xiaowen protected bystanders and slipped into the temple to seek the hidden great demon. He provoked the demon with taunts and rushed toward a dilapidated Buddhist hall.

• Chen Rong used talismans against the Wood-and-Stone Twin Demons as Bai Xiaowen sent Rageclaw to move bystanders to safety.
• Chen Meng fought the Stone Demon, but his saber broke against the demon’s defenses, while the Wood Demon wounded him with a sonic attack.
• Chen Rong trapped the Stone Demon in quicksand and directed Chen Meng to attack the Wood Demon, whose flute Chen Meng shattered.
• Bai Xiaowen left an illusion on the battlefield and used Position Swap to enter Stone Buddha Temple unnoticed by Chen Rong and Chen Meng.
• Bai Xiaowen scanned the temple and taunted the hidden great demon, then ran toward a dilapidated Buddhist hall.

Bai Xiaowen killed a Wood Incarnation in the Ancient Buddha Temple and realized the true Demon was a giant sophora tree attacking Chen Rong, Chen Meng, and the caravan outside. He found the Tree Demon's vital point and charged toward its true body as it threatened to devour them.

• Bai Xiaowen and his summoned creatures fought the armored Demon in the Buddhist hall, gradually reducing its health.
• Bai Xiaowen sensed powerful demonic energy outside, killed the fake Demon, and discovered it had been a Wood Incarnation made from sophora wood.
• Bai Xiaowen charged through the plant spirits and found the Ancient Sophora Demon attacking Chen Rong, Chen Meng, and the caravan while draining the ordinary people's Blood Qi.
• Bai Xiaowen used the Eye of Evolution to locate the Tree Demon's vital point and rode Rageclaw toward its true body.
• The Ancient Sophora Demon revealed its giant sophora-tree form and said that everyone would become its food.

Bai Xiaowen deceived the Ancient Pagoda Tree Demon into exposing its defenses, then struck its vital spot and crippled its meridians. He joined Chen Rong and Chen Meng in finishing it off, leaving the Ancient Pagoda Tree Demon slain.

• Bai Xiaowen and the Bone Warlock struck a conjured face with Thunderstrike Art while Bai Xiaowen concealed his real target.
• Bai Xiaowen rode Rageclaw toward the Ancient Pagoda Tree Demon's trunk, using the Eye of Evolution to locate its vital spot.
• Bai Xiaowen leaped from Rageclaw and used Seven Phantoms Chain Slash—Seven Blades as One to sever the tree demon's meridians.
• Chen Rong and Chen Meng rescued the people bound to the tree demon's branches as its health plunged and its demonic power rampaged.
• Bai Xiaowen, Chen Rong, and Chen Meng attacked the tree demon's vital spot until it collapsed and died.

After defeating the weakened Ancient Pagoda Tree Demon, Bai Xiaowen examined its remains and discovered valuable wood-element materials. He shared some of the spiritwood with Chen Rong and Chen Meng, while recognizing that he needed a larger storage device on the Evolver Plane.

• Chen Rong and Chen Meng thanked Bai Xiaowen for defeating the Ancient Pagoda Tree Demon and explained that it had been weakened by an old injury.
• Bai Xiaowen considered how health and Vital Strikes affected combat at the Evolver level and concluded that damaging vital points could cripple an opponent without instantly killing it.
• Chen Rong told Bai Xiaowen that the demon’s treasures belonged to whoever had killed it, so he inspected its remains.
• Bai Xiaowen identified the Millennial Sophora Heartwood and four pieces of Animated Spiritwood, then offered two pieces to Chen Rong and Chen Meng.
• Chen Rong stored the spiritwood with a sweep of her hand, prompting Bai Xiaowen to note that he needed a larger storage device.

Chen Rong gave Bai Xiaowen the Thunderwood Sword and promised to teach him the Spiritual Sense Art after they cleared Ancient Buddha Temple. The group killed the temple’s remaining demons and found a carving of the Wood Incarnation Demon Art, which Chen Rong explained could create a limited Spirit Force incarnation.

• Chen Rong gave Bai Xiaowen the Thunderwood Sword, which boosted Spirit Force attacks and granted lightning specialization.
• Chen Rong explained why Bai Xiaowen could not simply join the Supreme Clarity Sect and promised to teach him the Spiritual Sense Art.
• Chen Meng urged Chen Rong and Bai Xiaowen to clear Ancient Buddha Temple before returning to Ancient Sophora Town, and they agreed.
• Chen Rong, Chen Meng, and Bai Xiaowen killed the temple’s remaining lesser demons.
• The group found a bark carving of the Wood Incarnation Demon Art, and Bai Xiaowen asked whether they could cultivate a demon art.

Bai Xiaowen learned the Wood Incarnation Demon Art and Spiritual Sense Art from Chen Rong, who invited him to observe the Supreme Clarity Sect’s Dao Discussion Conference. Their conversation was interrupted when Ancient Sophora Town’s residents turned against the caravan for killing the demon that had protected them from worse threats.

• Bai Xiaowen accepted the Wood Incarnation manual from Chen Rong and began studying its principles.
• Chen Rong taught Bai Xiaowen the Spiritual Sense Art, which he learned quickly, then invited him to the Supreme Clarity Sect’s Dao Discussion Conference.
• A martial artist warned Chen Rong and Bai Xiaowen that angry townspeople had gathered outside the inn to drive out the caravan.
• Chen Rong confronted the townspeople, who argued that the demon had spared locals and that killing it would bring in a more dangerous demon.
• Bai Xiaowen stopped Chen Rong and explained that the townspeople feared other demons would claim the dead demon’s territory and prey on them.

Bai Xiaowen calmed the hostile townsfolk of Ancient Sophora Town with Empathy and parted ways with Chen Rong’s caravan. After discovering that his quest completion earned only 22 Spirit Crystals, he resolved to handle more of the work himself on future quests.

• Bai Xiaowen argued that cultivators kept Demons in check, and his Empathy technique softened many townsfolk’s hostility.
• Chen Rong’s caravan left Ancient Sophora Town for Cangzhou, while Bai Xiaowen declined to travel with them and agreed to meet them at the Supreme Clarity Sect Dao Discussion Conference.
• Bai Xiaowen checked the Spirit Realm Rules and learned that his 81% completion rate on the Haunted Market Town quest earned a Good rating and 22 Spirit Crystals.
• Bai Xiaowen concluded that Chen Rong and Chen Meng defeating the Wood-and-Stone Twin Demons had lowered his completion rate, and he resolved to complete more quest objectives himself next time.