Recaps

Chun Xiaobai, a young bandit king who discovered his world held immortals, spotted a badly injured woman whose wealth aura blazed purple and ordered his men to capture her. The bandits surrounded her as she turned toward them, and the second-in-command began his threat.

• Chun Xiaobai dismissed an approaching caravan after spotting that its wagons carried gravestones instead of valuables.
• Chun Xiaobai recalled seeing an immortal and deciding to abandon his father's plan to seize Great Liang's throne in favor of becoming an immortal emperor.
• A wounded woman in a fiery-red dress fell through a rift and landed beside the stream, unable to use her spiritual power.
• Chun Xiaobai saw the woman's enormous purple wealth aura and ordered the bandits to capture her.
• The bandits charged and surrounded the woman, while the second-in-command began to threaten her.

Chun Xiaobai and his bandits captured an injured woman in red, whose beauty left the gang entranced. He robbed her of a jade hairpin, failed to remove her bracelet, and carried her unconscious body back toward Black Wind Stronghold.

• The woman in red tried to strike the bandits, but her old injuries flared and she collapsed.
• Chun Xiaobai hit the woman in the head with his iron club, then kicked her and ordered his men to tie her up.
• The second-in-command and the other bandits admired the unconscious woman's beauty, while Chun Xiaobai scolded them and warned that her family might pursue them.
• Chun Xiaobai took the woman's jade hairpin, tried unsuccessfully to remove her pendant and bracelet, and felt a sharp prick while searching her sash.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered the bandits back to Black Wind Stronghold and hoisted the unconscious woman over his shoulder.

Chun Xiaobai brought an unconscious red-robed woman to Black Wind Stronghold, hoping to sell her valuables to fund his pursuit of immortality. He failed to remove her pendant and bracelet, and the woman began to stir as he hacked at the pendant’s cord.

• Chun Xiaobai carried the red-robed woman into Black Wind Stronghold, where the other chiefs mistook her for the stronghold's lady.
• Chun Xiaobai sent the chiefs away and tried to pull the red pendant cord from the woman's neck, but it would not come off.
• Chun Xiaobai searched the woman for a hard box he had felt earlier but could not find it.
• Chun Xiaobai tried to slide the purple jade bracelet off her wrist, but it remained stuck.
• Chun Xiaobai sawed and hacked at the pendant cord with an ox-ear knife, while the woman's brows tightened as she began to stir.

Chun Xiaobai tried to steal the red-clad woman's treasures, but she awakened and revealed immense supernatural power. After discovering the Martial God Tower had merged with his sea of consciousness, she recognized him as a descendant of the martial vein and offered him a choice between death and becoming her human slave; Chun Xiaobai demanded a third option.

• Chun Xiaobai failed to cut the woman's red cord and prepared to chop off her hand to take her bracelet.
• The woman in red awakened, summoned a spear toward Chun Xiaobai, and demanded to know where her belongings were.
• Chun Xiaobai returned her jade hairpin and denied taking anything else, while hiding that he had lost the hard box.
• The woman in red sensed the Martial God's aura in Chun Xiaobai and discovered that the Martial God Tower had merged with his sea of consciousness.
• The woman in red asked whether Chun Xiaobai's surname was Wu, and he claimed his surname was Chun.
• The woman in red offered Chun Xiaobai death or human slavery, and he blurted out that he chose a third path.

Chun Xiaobai bargained with the woman in red for his life by offering to cultivate immortality and find her handsome human slaves. After she chose to take him with her, she carried him into the sky, leaving him frightened and wondering where they were going.

• Chun Xiaobai proposed cultivating immortality before finding handsome immortals for the woman in red to keep as human slaves, and she accepted his plan.
• The woman in red took a multicolored pill and discovered aches at the back of her head and on her buttocks.
• Chun Xiaobai told his eight leaders to distribute the stronghold’s treasure, help the villagers leave, and flee Black Wind Stronghold.
• The woman in red appeared before the bandits and hurt their eyes with a glance, but spared them after Chun Xiaobai defended them.
• The woman in red lifted Chun Xiaobai into the air and flew away with him as he shouted farewell threats to his leaders.
• Chun Xiaobai trembled as the ground receded and asked the woman in red where she was taking him.

Chun Xiaobai was taken by a woman in red to the Eastern Realm Flying Immortal Platform and ordered to reach the Golden Core Stage within ten years. She left him free to choose a sect, but warned that the entire region and its sects belonged to her.

• The woman in red gave Chun Xiaobai a heavy purple-gold token and demanded he reach the Golden Core Stage within ten years or die.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye, mistook the token for valuable gold, and secretly planned to pawn it for spirit stones.
• After flying for half a day, the woman in red brought Chun Xiaobai to the Eastern Realm Flying Immortal Platform, where disciples were recruited once every ten years.
• The woman in red told Chun Xiaobai he could join any sect, and he promised to reach the Golden Core Stage within ten years.
• The woman in red warned Chun Xiaobai not to try any tricks because the surrounding land and every sect there belonged to her.

Chun Xiaobai rushed to the Immortal Sect Recruitment Assembly, hoping to join a sect and escape the woman in red’s watch. After failing the spiritual root test at multiple sects, he was left questioning his supposed talents.

• Chun Xiaobai discovered that the woman in red could still speak to him from afar and decided he needed to join a sect and find a way to remove her mark.
• Chun Xiaobai learned that the Immortal Sect Recruitment Assembly accepted only a limited number of disciples and hurried to the mountaintop.
• Chun Xiaobai forced his way into the Sunset Glow Sect’s line and tested his spiritual root, but the stele showed no light.
• Chun Xiaobai tried the test at seven or eight other sects, but each one also found no spiritual root.
• Chun Xiaobai watched other candidates celebrate their results and wondered how he could have no spiritual root despite his extraordinary gifts.

Chun Xiaobai joined the Azure Cloud Sect as a chore disciple after learning his mixed spiritual root had not qualified him for an elite outer disciple place. He arrived at the sect with Bai Jin'er and discovered that chore disciples had to work for three years before receiving a beginner cultivation manual.

• Chun Xiaobai accepted Bai Jin'er's offer to join the Azure Cloud Sect as a chore disciple.
• The sect elder announced that the intake for elite outer disciples was full, and other recruits explained why peerless geniuses rarely queued for assessments.
• Chun Xiaobai boarded the sect's flying ship and traveled for three days to the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Bai Jin'er led Chun Xiaobai and the other chore disciples toward the back mountain instead of the main gate.
• Bai Jin'er told the recruits they had to complete three years of chores before receiving the Beginner Qi Refining Formula, shocking Chun Xiaobai.

Chun Xiaobai arrived at the sect’s miserable servant-disciples’ quarters, learned he would have to fend for himself, and found a ramshackle hut to sleep in. The next morning, servant overseer Wang Fan ordered him to get up for work, but Chun Xiaobai remained asleep and mumbled about robbing people.

• Bai Jin'er explained that new servant disciples had to work for three years, save money for body-strengthening pills, and prepare to cultivate after receiving a Qi Refinement Manual.
• Bai Jin'er led the group to shabby huts, distributed identity tokens, and told Chun Xiaobai that servant disciples had to provide their own food and housing.
• Bai Jin'er gave the hungry Chun Xiaobai several flatbreads and told him to find a place to live and prepare a garden.
• After learning that the Outer Sect had around five hundred thousand disciples, Chun Xiaobai found an unoccupied, nearly collapsing hut and fell asleep.
• At dawn, Wang Fan kicked in Chun Xiaobai's door and ordered him to work, while Chun Xiaobai kept sleeping and muttered about robbing people.

Chun Xiaobai was assigned the worst menial job after refusing to bribe Steward Wang, so he rebelled when Wang tried to bully him. The chapter ended with Chun Xiaobai breaking Wang’s ankle and Wang ordering the other servant disciples to kill him.

• Wang Fan gave the cushy assignments to servant disciples who bribed him, then ordered Chun Xiaobai to scrub toilets on Green Bamboo Peak.
• Chun Xiaobai decided to abandon cultivation and return to being a bandit king, then caught Wang Fan’s kick and fist with ease.
• Wang Fan offered Chun Xiaobai an alchemy attendant job, which Chun Xiaobai suspected was a trap to make him test pills.
• Chun Xiaobai broke Wang Fan’s ankle, and Wang Fan offered the alchemy attendant job to anyone who killed Chun Xiaobai.

After crippling Wang Fan and fleeing the menial disciples, Chun Xiaobai got lost while trying to leave the mountain and decided to steal supplies first. He discovered two Outer Sect disciples meeting privately, spotted their valuable pouches, and attacked them, but the male disciple began to turn on him.

• Chun Xiaobai knocked down the menial disciples, broke Wang Fan’s arm and knee, and left the group cowering in their hut.
• Chun Xiaobai got lost on the mountain and decided to find travel money and food before attempting to leave.
• Chun Xiaobai tossed his shoe to choose a direction, then forced his way through a thorny forest toward the summit.
• Chun Xiaobai found a male and female Outer Sect disciple meeting behind a boulder and used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to spot their pouches.
• Chun Xiaobai put on a black hood and struck both disciples, knocking the woman unconscious as the man turned around and roared at him.

After robbing two Outer Sect disciples, Chun Xiaobai decided to infiltrate the sect and use its large population to build his fortune. He learned how to use their Storage Bags, disguised himself in a disciple’s uniform, and entered the Outer Sect grounds.

• Chun Xiaobai knocked out a male disciple and his companion, took their Storage Bags, and spared their lives.
• Chun Xiaobai chose to sneak into the Outer Sect and recruited no one, instead taking a disciple’s uniform before heading toward the sect grounds.
• Chun Xiaobai discovered how to sense and retrieve the contents of the Storage Bags, finding spirit stones, flying swords, and cultivation manuals.
• Chun Xiaobai put on the blue-green uniform and practiced looking like an Outer Sect disciple.
• Chun Xiaobai reached a plaza, watched disciples travel by flying sword, and joined a crowd heading into the Outer Sect grounds.

Chun Xiaobai infiltrated Green Bamboo Peak using a stolen identity token and learned that disciples could claim new abodes by challenging their occupants. He raced to the summit and challenged a resident of a grand, barrier-protected courtyard.

• Chun Xiaobai used Wu Liang's identity token to enter Green Bamboo Peak without being checked.
• Chun Xiaobai asked a disciple how to switch abodes and learned that he could claim one by defeating its resident.
• Chun Xiaobai ignored the disciple's warning about the powerful senior disciples near the summit and headed upward.
• Chun Xiaobai chose a protected courtyard near the Peak Master Hall and prepared to attack with his strength and the purple-gold token.
• A chubby young man came out of the courtyard, and Chun Xiaobai blocked his way and declared that he was taking over his turf.

Chun Xiaobai accidentally knocked out Fang Yuan, then intimidated Li Xuanfeng into handing over the cave residence and its Formation Talisman. After Li Xuanfeng fled, Chun Xiaobai struggled to figure out how to use the talisman, while Fang Yuan threatened to report him and drew his anger.

• Chun Xiaobai struck Fang Yuan unconscious, mistaking him for the disciple he had come to challenge.
• Li Xuanfeng saw Chun Xiaobai defeat Fang Yuan and, unable to gauge his cultivation, offered him the cave residence and its Formation Talisman.
• Li Xuanfeng fled after giving Chun Xiaobai the talisman, and Chun Xiaobai realized he did not know how to use it.
• Fang Yuan woke up and threatened to report Chun Xiaobai to the Disciplinary Hall, prompting Chun Xiaobai to threaten to cripple him.

Chun Xiaobai enlisted Fang Yuan’s help to open the arrays protecting his cave residence, then explored the comfortable courtyard. Hungry and unable to find food, Chun Xiaobai tried to cultivate with the Azure Cloud Manual but quickly grew sleepy.

• Fang Yuan abandoned his hostility toward Chun Xiaobai and offered to help him use the cave residence’s array talisman.
• Fang Yuan disabled all four arrays, revealing Chun Xiaobai’s courtyard residence, and showed him its rooms and spirit fields.
• Fang Yuan told Chun Xiaobai that he lived next door and left after Chun Xiaobai patted his shoulder.
• Chun Xiaobai searched the residence for food, found no kitchen, and decided to try cultivating instead.
• Chun Xiaobai memorized the Azure Cloud Manual’s formula and began meditating, but he nearly fell asleep within minutes.

Chun Xiaobai ate several bottles of medicinal pills to stave off hunger, then went with Fang Yuan to Elder Liu’s cultivation lecture hoping to find guidance. As the lecture gathered a crowd, Junior Sister Bai arrived and Fang Yuan welcomed her to the seat he had saved.

• Chun Xiaobai swallowed bottles of Beauty-Nourishing Pills and Meridian-Nourishing Pills, which filled him up, but he still could not sense qi or locate his dantian.
• Fang Yuan invited Chun Xiaobai to Elder Liu’s lecture at the Merit Transmission Hall, and Chun Xiaobai agreed, hoping to learn cultivation basics.
• Chun Xiaobai and Fang Yuan greeted Wu Liang and Lin Yue at the Green Bamboo Peak entrance, where Chun Xiaobai encouraged them.
• Chun Xiaobai discovered the lecture was about swordsmanship and that they had two hours to wait, so he tried to nap and then visualized the Azure Cloud Manual.
• Junior Sister Bai arrived, and Fang Yuan eagerly greeted her and offered the seat he had saved.

Chun Xiaobai tried to hide his identity from Bai Jin'er, but Fang Yuan’s praise convinced her that he was a powerful new senior brother. To make her drop her suspicions, Chun Xiaobai gave her a Foundation Establishment Pill, drawing the attention of the surrounding disciples.

• Chun Xiaobai recognized Bai Jin'er from his time as a servant disciple and loudly rebuked her when she nearly exposed him.
• Fang Yuan told Bai Jin'er that Chun Xiaobai had joined the sect yesterday and defeated Li Xuanfeng to claim his cave dwelling.
• Fang Yuan claimed Chun Xiaobai had defeated Li Xuanfeng in a single move, convincing Bai Jin'er to apologize and accept him as a powerful senior brother.
• Chun Xiaobai gave Bai Jin'er a Foundation Establishment Pill as a first-meeting gift, and the surrounding disciples reacted in shock.

Chun Xiaobai gave Bai Jin'er a Foundation Establishment Pill and drew attention by boasting that he ate them like beans. During Gu Changfeng's lecture on Sword Momentum, Chun fell asleep, but Elder Gu admired his composure and draped his robe over him; Bai Jin'er later told Chun to return it.

• Chun Xiaobai gave Bai Jin'er a Foundation Establishment Pill, and Fang Yuan urged her to thank him and repay his generosity.
• Chun Xiaobai claimed he ate Foundation Establishment Pills like beans, attracting the admiration of nearby female disciples.
• Gu Changfeng entered the Merit Transmission Hall and began teaching the disciples about Sword Momentum.
• Chun Xiaobai fell asleep during the lecture and told Bai Jin'er not to bother him when she tried to wake him.
• Gu Changfeng praised Chun Xiaobai as a promising seedling and placed his outer robe over him while he slept.
• After the lecture, Bai Jin'er woke Chun Xiaobai and told him that Gu Changfeng had asked him to return the robe.

Chun Xiaobai was called to spar at the training grounds despite having no spiritual energy, but the pills he had eaten had greatly increased his strength, speed, and reflexes. Elder Gu stopped Chun Xiaobai from seriously injuring his opponent, then challenged him over the viciousness of his strike.

• Chun Xiaobai hurried to the training grounds to return Elder Gu's robe, but Elder Gu ordered him to demonstrate his sword stance.
• A disciple attacked Chun Xiaobai, who reflexively blocked the strike and discovered that his physical abilities had improved after eating nearly two hundred pills.
• Chun Xiaobai adopted an unusual stance that made Elder Gu suspect he had comprehended saber momentum.
• The disciple used Wind-Chasing Step to rush Chun Xiaobai, who spotted an opening and slashed toward the disciple's waist and abdomen.
• Elder Gu stopped Chun Xiaobai's sword after it cut the disciple's robe and wounded him, and the disciple admitted defeat.
• Elder Gu questioned Chun Xiaobai about striking so viciously, and Chun Xiaobai asked whether the attack had really been vicious.

Chun Xiaobai sparred with Gu Changfeng, who criticized his control and called on Zhao Wuyuan to test his blade skills. Zhao Wuyuan agreed to fight without spiritual energy, and Chun Xiaobai launched a powerful attack as Zhao countered with a swift thrust toward his face.

• Chun Xiaobai explained that his vicious strike had been meant to restrain his opponent, and Gu Changfeng judged that he had shown no killing intent despite his formidable physical force.
• Gu Changfeng lectured Chun Xiaobai about controlling his technique and summoned Zhao Wuyuan to test his blade skills.
• Zhao Wuyuan agreed to spar without spiritual energy after mistaking Chun Xiaobai's lack of it for disrespect.
• Chun Xiaobai welcomed the chance to fight without spiritual energy, then charged and brought his sword down at Zhao Wuyuan.
• Zhao Wuyuan dodged backward and countered with a swift sword strike aimed at Chun Xiaobai's face.

Chun Xiaobai gained the upper hand against Zhao Wuyuan by exploiting his swordwork and revealing a Blade Soul, but Zhao Wuyuan attacked with spiritual energy and Elder Gu intervened to stop Chun’s counterstrike. The chapter ended with Zhao Wuyuan exploiting Chun’s confusion to thrust at his throat.

• Chun Xiaobai avoided Zhao Wuyuan’s opening sword strikes and recognized that Zhao’s strength lay in controlling his blade.
• Chun Xiaobai read the footwork behind Zhao Wuyuan’s Star-Shattering Sword Art and struck him hard enough to make him spit blood.
• Gu Changfeng recognized Chun Xiaobai’s strike as proof that he possessed a Blade Soul, stunning the disciples and prompting Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan to cheer.
• Zhao Wuyuan gathered spiritual energy onto his sword and charged Chun Xiaobai with a lethal attack.
• A mysterious tap slowed Zhao Wuyuan’s sword in Chun Xiaobai’s eyes, but Gu Changfeng blocked Chun’s counterstrike with Sword Intent.
• Zhao Wuyuan seized Chun Xiaobai’s moment of confusion and thrust his sword toward Chun’s throat.

Chun Xiaobai defeated Zhao Wuyuan with one strike, and Gu Changfeng praised his swordsmanship while concealing the full extent of his ability. As Chun Xiaobai tried to keep his identity hidden, he invited Bai Jin'er to his cave residence under the pretense of giving her spare pills.

• Elder Gu stopped Zhao Wuyuan's attack and declared the match over, saying Chun Xiaobai's swordsmanship had reached the pinnacle of perfection.
• The crowd learned that Chun Xiaobai had defeated Zhao Wuyuan with one strike, while Gu Changfeng chose not to reveal his blade soul.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er praised Chun Xiaobai as they left the arena, and Chun Xiaobai hurried them away to avoid drawing more attention.
• At Green Bamboo Peak, Wu Liang heard of Chun Xiaobai's victory and was grateful Fang Yuan had introduced him to such a powerful senior brother.
• Bai Jin'er prepared to leave for her residence, but Chun Xiaobai invited her to his cave to take his spare pills, and she reluctantly agreed.

Chun Xiaobai brought Bai Jin'er to his summit courtyard, where he gave her pills and revealed that he had not yet drawn qi into his body. Bai Jin'er realized he was the chore disciple she had met before and confronted him in terror.

• Fang Yuan accepted Bai Jin'er’s agreement to Chun Xiaobai’s offer and returned to his nearby cave abode.
• Chun Xiaobai had Bai Jin'er activate the courtyard arrays, then took back the Formation Talisman to prevent her from leaving easily.
• Chun Xiaobai gave Bai Jin'er fifty Spirit-Gathering Pills, then swallowed over a hundred Qi-Restoring Pills without suffering harm.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Bai Jin'er to teach him how to draw qi into his body, leaving her shocked that he had defeated powerful cultivators without beginning cultivation.
• Bai Jin'er recognized Chun Xiaobai as the chore disciple and pointed at him in terror.

Chun Xiaobai revealed his bandit identity to Bai Jin'er and made her promise to keep it secret, then asked her to teach him how to draw spiritual energy into his body. He repeatedly fell asleep while trying to meditate, leaving him wondering whether Bai Jin'er had taught him a hypnosis technique.

• Chun Xiaobai admitted to Bai Jin'er that he was the bandit king and warned her not to expose him, revealing that he had stolen the Foundation Establishment Pill she took.
• Bai Jin'er feared being implicated in Chun Xiaobai's crimes, but he promised not to report her as long as she kept his identity secret.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Bai Jin'er to explain how to draw spiritual energy into his body, and she taught him to clear his mind and focus between his eyebrows.
• Chun Xiaobai tried meditating with spirit stones but repeatedly fell asleep, even after Bai Jin'er gave him further instructions.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Bai Jin'er whether she was teaching him a hypnosis technique instead of a cultivation method.

Chun Xiaobai failed to sense spiritual qi despite Bai Jin'er’s careful instruction, then discovered he could trigger a powerful state that sharpened his senses and enhanced his strength. The state left him dizzy and ravenously hungry, and he wondered whether a special physique had awakened.

• Bai Jin'er told Chun Xiaobai that even the slowest disciples sensed spiritual qi within three days, but he still could not sense any.
• Bai Jin'er worried the Disciplinary Hall would discover Chun Xiaobai’s unauthorized presence in the Outer Sect and resolved to persuade him to leave once he entered the Dao.
• Chun Xiaobai struggled to understand why meditation made him drowsy and searched for the cause of the pressure he had felt in his head.
• Chun Xiaobai imagined defending himself against Zhao Wuyuan, triggering the pressure and suddenly perceiving his surroundings with heightened clarity while gaining extraordinary strength and speed.
• Chun Xiaobai collapsed when the state ended, ate pills to recover from intense hunger and weakness, and suspected that a special physique had awakened.