Recaps

Chun Xiaobai escaped Mu Qinglan by tricking Crow Daoist into taking the blame for him. Mu Qinglan confronted Crow Daoist and accused him of being a member of the Corpse Cleaners, leaving him in danger as she suspected he meant to silence her.

• Chun Xiaobai spotted Crow Daoist hiding near the battlefield and rushed toward him while Mu Qinglan pursued.
• Chun Xiaobai slapped Crow Daoist on the shoulder, called him Master, and ran off claiming he would fetch reinforcements.
• Mu Qinglan attacked Crow Daoist, who dodged her spear and realized Chun Xiaobai had set him up.
• Crow Daoist denied knowing Chun Xiaobai, but Mu Qinglan identified him as a Corpse Cleaner.
• Mu Qinglan interpreted Crow Daoist's panic and Chun Xiaobai's claim about reinforcements as evidence that they planned to silence her.

Mu Qinglan mistook Crow Daoist for a Corpse Cleaner and attacked him, while Chun Xiaobai escaped and decided to sneak back to exploit their fight. Mu Qinglan and Crow Daoist continued their devastating battle as Chun Xiaobai watched from afar.

• Mu Qinglan accused Crow Daoist of conspiring with his disciple to loot corpses and thrust her spear at him.
• Crow Daoist deflected Mu Qinglan's strike with a gray gourd, and it blasted a deep crater into a distant mountaintop.
• Chun Xiaobai hid a hundred li away, spotted a wealth aura around Crow Daoist, and decided to wait for the two fighters to weaken each other before stealing his treasures.
• Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Sealing Finger to seal his aura and crept back toward the battlefield.
• Mu Qinglan and Crow Daoist exchanged over a hundred blows, and Crow Daoist used a golden talisman to block her spear as Chun Xiaobai watched in fear.

Mu Qinglan and Crow Daoist fought until both were nearly out of spiritual power, and Crow Daoist unleashed a self-destructing Heaven-Tier Magical Treasure to kill her. Mu Qinglan survived the blast but was gravely wounded, leaving Crow Daoist ready to finish her off.

• Mu Qinglan and Crow Daoist fought for hundreds of exchanges, exhausting their spiritual power and devastating the surrounding mountains.
• Crow Daoist used a giant gray gourd, which Chun Xiaobai recognized as a Heaven-Tier Magical Treasure, to lure Mu Qinglan into striking it.
• Crow Daoist detonated the gourd, creating a massive blast that hurled Chun Xiaobai away and forced him to flee farther from the battlefield.
• Mu Qinglan survived the explosion but was badly wounded, while Crow Daoist stared at her in shock.
• Crow Daoist resolved to take Mu Qinglan's life while she was weakened.

Mu Qinglan killed Crow Daoist despite her injuries, but Chun Xiaobai knocked her unconscious from behind and searched her for valuables. He took her Azure Sect identity token and discovered her spear was a Life-Bound Magical Treasure that he could not put into his Storage Ring.

• Mu Qinglan counterattacked Crow Daoist and pierced his heart, killing him, then struggled to remain standing after the Heaven-Tier Magical Treasure’s explosion had injured her.
• As Mu Qinglan remembered Chun Xiaobai, he struck her from behind twice with a golden club and knocked her unconscious.
• Chun Xiaobai searched Mu Qinglan but found no valuables besides an Azure Sect identity token, which he took.
• Chun Xiaobai found Mu Qinglan’s golden spear and recognized it as a Heaven-Tier Mid-Grade Magical Treasure, but he could not move it into his Storage Ring.
• Chun Xiaobai realized the spear was likely a Life-Bound Magical Treasure, possibly a Companion Magical Treasure also known as a Rare Treasure.

Chun Xiaobai looted Crow Daoist, who had secretly used the Heaven-Returning Art to fake his death, and found an earth-tier Storage Ring among his treasures. Crow Daoist’s concealment remained intact, but the ring’s theft caused him to spit blood again.

• Chun Xiaobai decided he would melt down the Heaven-Tier Magical Treasure spear so he could carry its materials safely.
• Chun Xiaobai searched the apparently dead Crow Daoist and found an earth-tier gourd, stacks of talismans, several Storage Bags, and an earth-tier Daoist robe.
• Crow Daoist revealed inwardly that he had used the Heaven-Returning Art to fake his death and was helpless as Chun Xiaobai stripped his possessions.
• Chun Xiaobai tested Crow Daoist, confirmed he seemed dead, and pulled an earth-tier Storage Ring from his finger.
• Crow Daoist suffered another bloody backlash when Chun Xiaobai took the ring containing his most important savings.

Chun Xiaobai looted Crow Daoist’s Storage Ring and possessions, then fled when reinforcements arrived, abandoning the Golden Spear. The elders found Mu Qinglan unconscious and discovered that two enormous lumps on her head, rather than her internal injuries, had knocked her out.

• Chun Xiaobai dismantled Crow Daoist’s divine soul imprint and found fifty million spirit stones, many corpses, and a purple-glowing coffin inside his Storage Ring.
• Chun Xiaobai stripped Crow Daoist of his treasures and clothes while Crow Daoist lay helpless under the Heaven-Returning Art.
• Chun Xiaobai started to undo Mu Qinglan’s sash, but fled when urgent whistles signaled approaching reinforcements.
• Chun Xiaobai discovered the Golden Spear’s artifact spirit made it grow heavier with every step, so he threw it down and vanished before the elders could pursue him.
• The elders surrounded the unconscious Mu Qinglan, and an elderly woman found that two large lumps on her head had knocked her out.

Mu Qinglan woke after Chun Xiaobai knocked her unconscious and realized he had stolen her Sect Master Token, the key to the Azure Cloud Sect’s Treasure Vault. Chun Xiaobai returned to the sect amid rumors praising his Thunder Tribulation, where Yun Huoyue confronted him, believing he had died.

• Elder Jiang treated Mu Qinglan while Crow Daoist’s corpse dissolved into black liquid.
• Mu Qinglan recovered her memories, recalled Chun Xiaobai’s attack, and discovered her Sect Master Token was missing.
• Mu Qinglan ordered the elders to pursue Chun Xiaobai, describing his appearance, cultivation, and strange movement technique.
• Chun Xiaobai returned to his Cave Abode through the Azure Cloud Sect’s Outer Sect, enjoying the rumors about his Thunder Tribulation.
• Yun Huoyue approached Chun Xiaobai, disappointed after searching the crater and finding neither his corpse nor his ashes.

Chun Xiaobai survived a thousand-li heavenly tribulation, emerged stronger, and encountered Yun Huoyue, who recognized him as the person destined to undo her seal. When Yun Huoyue tried to take him somewhere private, Chun Xiaobai mistook her intentions and escaped her grasp.

• Yun Huoyue recalled that a divination had identified someone in the Azure Cloud Sect's Outer Sect as the one destined to undo her seal, and she suspected Chun Xiaobai was that person.
• Yun Huoyue spotted Chun Xiaobai alive on the mountain path and realized he had survived the heavenly tribulation and grown stronger.
• Yun Huoyue became convinced Chun Xiaobai was her destined person and tried to lead him to Green Bamboo Peak for a private conversation.
• Chun Xiaobai shouted that Yun Huoyue was lusting after his body, drawing the attention of people on the path.
• Yun Huoyue grabbed Chun Xiaobai's wrist, but he feared she wanted to extract his cultivation foundation, broke free, and disappeared.

Chun Xiaobai returned to his cave abode and discovered Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er had advanced to the Foundation Establishment middle stage after spending all their spirit stones on pills. After realizing they had been overcharged, he prepared to take them into the Inner Sect that night while keeping watch for the powerful woman pursuing him.

• The woman decided Chun Xiaobai should be transferred to the Inner Sect for protection and flew toward the Sect Master.
• Chun Xiaobai returned to his cave abode and found Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er had reached the Foundation Establishment middle stage with stable foundations.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er explained they had spent all their resources, including twenty million spirit stones, on pills bought through an Inner Sect contact.
• Chun Xiaobai concluded that a middleman or Senior Brother Wang had cheated them and resolved to make the seller pay.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to pack so they could enter the Inner Sect that night, while he watched the summit for the powerful woman.

Chun Xiaobai, Fang Yuan, and Bai Jin'er entered the Azure Cloud Sect’s Inner Sect, where they learned how its grotto heavens ranked disciples and resources. Chun Xiaobai decided to aim for the highest heaven grotto heavens and led the group to the Administrative Affairs Hall to handle their assignments.

• Chun Xiaobai hurriedly packed and left the Outer Sect with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er after suspecting Fang Yuan’s ruined foundation concealed remarkable talent.
• The three flew for four hours and learned that the Inner Sect occupied most of the Azure Cloud Sect’s vast territory.
• Bai Jin'er explained the Inner Sect’s forty-two grotto heavens and recommended that they target the middle seven for wealthy disciples and valuable treasures.
• Fang Yuan described the grotto heavens as ranks from the lower levels up to the mysterious heaven grotto heavens, and Chun Xiaobai chose to aim for the top rank.
• Inner Sect disciples tried to sell pills and spiritual talismans to the newcomers, but Chun Xiaobai refused to waste money on them.
• Chun Xiaobai, Fang Yuan, and Bai Jin'er headed to the Administrative Affairs Hall to handle their sect assignments.

Chun Xiaobai, Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan went to the Administrative Hall to register as Inner Sect disciples, but the Sect's records had no entry for Chun Xiaobai. The administrator registered Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan, while Chun Xiaobai was told to bring Elder Lu Qingshan as a guarantor, leaving him afraid his real status as an Odd-Job Disciple would be exposed.

• Chun Xiaobai, Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan reached the Administrative Hall and told the administrator they had come to register for the Inner Sect.
• Chun Xiaobai named Elder Lu Qingshan as their connection, and the administrator confirmed Lu Qingshan had left word for Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan.
• The administrator found Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan in the Sect's records but could not find Chun Xiaobai, who realized he was still registered only as an Odd-Job Disciple.
• Chun Xiaobai claimed he was a specially recruited disciple of Elder Lu Qingshan, and Bai Jin'er recognized that he had actually been an Odd-Job Disciple she picked up outside the mountain gate.
• The administrator issued identity tokens to Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan but refused to register Chun Xiaobai without Elder Lu Qingshan as his guarantor.
• Chun Xiaobai feared that summoning Elder Lu Qingshan would expose his true status and get him expelled from the Sect.

Chun Xiaobai left the Administrative Affairs Hall with Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan, while an elder grew suspicious of his identity. Yun Huoyue discovered that Chun Xiaobai had no record in the Sect's Compass and found his Green Bamboo Peak residence abandoned.

• The Administrative Affairs Hall elder noticed Chun Xiaobai claimed to be specially recruited despite wearing Outer Sect robes, then checked the mission records and found he had undertaken a Demon Suppression mission.
• Yun Huoyue asked Mu Qinglan for an Inner Sect disciple's place, and Mu Qinglan gave her a Jade Token while preoccupied with the Little Bandit who had stolen her Sect Master Token.
• Yun Huoyue searched the disciple Compass for Chun Xiaobai but found no record of him, and she feared he had left the Sect.
• Yun Huoyue rushed to Chun Xiaobai's cave abode on Green Bamboo Peak and found the formation off, the gate open, and the house emptied in haste.
• Yun Huoyue concluded Chun Xiaobai had escaped and grew furious.

Yun Huoyue learned that Chun Xiaobai had left the Sect and set out to bring him back, believing she had frightened him. Meanwhile, Chun Xiaobai and his companions explored the Inner Sect and chose a remote peak in the Heaven Grotto Heavens, where he prepared to break through its third-tier grand array.

• Yun Huoyue checked the Outer Sect register and learned that more than three hundred disciples had left the Sect, then went in pursuit of Chun Xiaobai.
• Chun Xiaobai, Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan toured the Inner Sect before heading to the rear mountains to find a cave abode.
• Chun Xiaobai chose a remote peak in the Heaven Grotto Heavens, and the three found it protected by a third-tier grand array.
• Bai Jin'er urged Chun Xiaobai to find another place, but he told her to get out of his way as he prepared to break the array.

Chun Xiaobai dismantled a third-tier formation around an elder’s Cave Abode, fled when the elder appeared, then broke into a second-tier residence to requisition it. Fang Yuan’s shout interrupted the disciple inside during a breakthrough, leaving him furious and confused about how the active formation had been breached.

• Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Rending Hand to dismantle the third-tier formation around a Cave Abode.
• Chun Xiaobai, Fang Yuan, and Bai Jin'er saw the lavish residence and fled when an old man appeared.
• Fang Yuan told Chun Xiaobai to target residences with second-tier formations, and they found and broke one.
• Chun Xiaobai signaled Fang Yuan to announce their requisition, and Fang Yuan's shout startled a disciple during his breakthrough.
• The disciple spat blood, sprang up in anger, and wondered how anyone had entered through his active formation.

Chun Xiaobai took over Li Xuanfeng’s cave abode after Li Xuanfeng handed him its formation disc, but Li Xuanfeng refused to join his schemes and fled. Chun Xiaobai then settled in with Bai Jin’er and Fang Yuan, who urged him to activate the mountain’s tier-two formation for its spirit-gathering benefits.

• Chun Xiaobai and his companions arrived at Li Xuanfeng’s courtyard, and Chun Xiaobai claimed the cave abode as his own.
• Li Xuanfeng gave Chun Xiaobai the formation disc, then declined Fang Yuan’s invitation to join their group and hurried away.
• Chun Xiaobai accepted Li Xuanfeng’s choice and told him to call on him if anyone in the Inner Sect bullied him.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered Bai Jin’er to arrange his room, while Fang Yuan explained that activating the mountain formation would improve cultivation.
• Chun Xiaobai decided to activate the formation and fleece the benefits from the mountain.

Chun Xiaobai learned that his Inner Sect Cave Abode’s grand array drew power from Azure Cloud Sect’s earth vein but cost two thousand low-grade spirit stones per day to activate. Realizing how much money the Sect could earn from its fees, he resolved to seize sects and collect rent, then paid to run his own array for a month.

• Chun Xiaobai tried to activate the Formation Disc’s spirit-gathering array, but it did not respond.
• Fang Yuan investigated and told Chun Xiaobai that the Cave Abode arrays drew power from underground earth veins.
• Fang Yuan explained that activating Chun Xiaobai’s second-level grand array cost two thousand low-grade spirit stones per day.
• Chun Xiaobai calculated how much Azure Cloud Sect could earn from its fees and vowed to seize sects and collect rent.
• Chun Xiaobai gave Fang Yuan the Formation Disc and a Storage Bag, ordering him to pay for a month of array use.

Chun Xiaobai discovered that the Sect charged heavily for formations that drew on underground spiritual veins and decided to exploit his formation skills to profit from the mountaintop array. After finding its buried foundation and touching it with the Heaven-Rending Hand, he was overwhelmed by a vastly more complex formation diagram.

• Chun Xiaobai activated the Spirit-Gathering Array and learned from Fang Yuan that the Sect charged two thousand spirit stones a day for the mountaintop residence.
• Fang Yuan explained that the formation could be upgraded through the Sect, and Chun Xiaobai plotted to secretly raise its tier and sell cultivation tickets.
• Chun Xiaobai used the Heaven-Rending Hand to trace the array to its foundation beneath the pavilion.
• Chun Xiaobai, Fang Yuan, and Bai Jin'er dug through the pavilion floor and uncovered a rune-covered blue-green stone slab.
• Chun Xiaobai touched the slab with the Heaven-Rending Hand and nearly toppled after a far more complicated formation diagram flooded his mind.

Chun Xiaobai recognized the stone slab’s formation diagram as part of an ancient Mountain-Guarding Grand Array and used the principles of his Heaven-Rending Hand and Heaven-Sealing Finger to understand it. He began manipulating the diagram to change the Spirit-Gathering Array’s tier, though he still understood only a fraction of the grand array.

• Chun Xiaobai realized the stone slab’s dense formation diagram was an ancient original, far more complex than an ordinary fourth-tier formation.
• After struggling to decipher it, Chun Xiaobai recognized that Heaven-Rending Hand and Heaven-Sealing Finger embodied the principles of opening and sealing.
• Chun Xiaobai understood that the diagram governed a powerful ancient Mountain-Guarding Grand Array connected to the Azure Cloud Sect’s formation hubs.
• Chun Xiaobai decided he knew enough to alter the mountaintop Spirit-Gathering Array’s tier and began manipulating the formation diagram.

Chun Xiaobai seized control of the mountain’s Spirit-Gathering Array and raised its spiritual qi concentration to sixty times the normal level, then sent Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan to sell entry tickets. After sleeping for two days, he woke to find them still missing and feared something had happened to them.

• Chun Xiaobai revoked the Spirit Affairs Hall’s control of the formation and increased the Spirit-Gathering Array’s concentration to sixty times normal.
• Chun Xiaobai told Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan to sell mountain entry tickets for two thousand spirit stones a day, with the first batch limited to ten thousand.
• Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan hurried down the mountain to sell tickets while Chun Xiaobai went upstairs to recover by sleeping.
• Chun Xiaobai woke two days later, found the courtyard empty, and worried that Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan had run into trouble.

After Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er were mistaken for scammers while selling tickets to Chun Xiaobai’s high-Spiritual-Qi cultivation cave, Chun Xiaobai realized their lack of credibility had doomed the pitch. He decided to recruit a reputable Inner Sect spokesperson and resolved to kidnap someone for the role.

• Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er returned injured and explained that disciples had beaten them for selling cultivation tickets, while the Enforcement Hall had punished Bai Jin'er by making her sweep the streets.
• Chun Xiaobai gave them third-tier Qi-Restoring Pills and Bone-Mending Salve, then sent them inside to recover.
• Chun Xiaobai considered why Inner Sect disciples distrusted the deal and worried that the Sect Master would punish him for secretly using the Cave Abode’s Spirit-Gathering Array at its highest setting.
• Chun Xiaobai concluded that a reputable spokesperson could make the disciples trust the offer.
• Chun Xiaobai decided he could not afford to waste another day and planned to kidnap someone to promote the cultivation business.

Chun Xiaobai ordered Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to gather information on notable inner sect disciples for his brand ambassador plan, then examined Crow Daoist’s treasures and a Purple-Gold Token. He received an Inner Sect Celebrity Directory that Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er had bought from a street stall.

• Chun Xiaobai pulled Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er away from cultivation and explained his plan to recruit a brand ambassador.
• Chun Xiaobai sent Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to collect names, backgrounds, and strengths of notable inner sect disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai failed to absorb the spiritual qi in the air, then sorted through Crow Daoist’s treasures and ate several bottles of pills.
• Chun Xiaobai examined a Purple-Gold Token and guessed it belonged to a Grand Supreme Elder of the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er returned with a street-stall copy of the Inner Sect Celebrity Directory, and Chun Xiaobai began reading it.

Chun Xiaobai chose Bai Yutang, the Azure Cloud Sect’s celebrated Poetry Sage, as a potential spokesperson for his business and sent Fang Yuan to recruit him. Bai Yutang arrived after hearing Chun Xiaobai’s name and an offer of ten million spirit stones for a single word, then greeted him with a poem and a formal bow.

• Chun Xiaobai selected Bai Yutang from the Famous Names Register because of his fame, eloquence, and influence among Inner Sect disciples.
• Fang Yuan warned Chun Xiaobai that Bai Yutang resisted force and valued integrity, while Bai Jin'er defended Bai Yutang as a modest gentleman.
• Chun Xiaobai dismissed Bai Yutang’s principles as a matter of price and sent Fang Yuan with ten million spirit stones to invite him.
• Fang Yuan returned with Bai Yutang, who had declared a destined connection with Chun Xiaobai after hearing his name and the offer.
• Bai Yutang recited a poem about the mountain scenery, turned to Chun Xiaobai, and introduced himself with a scholar’s bow.

Chun Xiaobai tried to recruit Bai Yutang into Black Wind Stronghold, but Bai Yutang denounced the bandits and rejected the offer. When Chun Xiaobai raised the pay and promised unlimited profit sharing, Bai Yutang immediately knelt and accepted.

• Chun Xiaobai welcomed Bai Yutang into the courtyard while Bai Yutang praised his rough manner as sincere and noble.
• Bai Yutang recited poetry, and Chun Xiaobai invited him to join Black Wind Stronghold as a paid subordinate.
• Bai Yutang realized Chun Xiaobai and his companions were bandits, condemned them, and announced he would leave without reporting them to the Sect.
• Chun Xiaobai offered Bai Yutang one million spirit stones a month, then raised the offer to five million plus a profit-sharing bonus, but Bai Yutang angrily rejected the money.
• Chun Xiaobai promised ten million spirit stones with no upper limit on the monthly profit share, and Bai Yutang turned back, knelt before him, and accepted.

Chun Xiaobai recruited Bai Yutang by offering him a salary of ten million spirit stones a month, then explained his plan to sell tickets for spiritual qi usage rights. Bai Yutang recognized the Sect’s ancient Heaven and Earth Boundless Formation behind the scheme and took charge of ticket sales, while preparing to offer a suggestion.

• Bai Yutang praised Chun Xiaobai and accepted his offer of ten million spirit stones a month, shocking Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er.
• Chun Xiaobai invited Bai Yutang to join the meeting and told Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to learn from his enthusiasm.
• Chun Xiaobai explained his plan to sell tickets granting spiritual qi usage rights.
• Bai Yutang identified the Azure Cloud Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Array as the ancient Heaven and Earth Boundless Formation and praised Chun Xiaobai for altering its permissions.
• Chun Xiaobai assigned Bai Yutang to sell the tickets, and Bai Yutang promised to sell them all within a day before asking to make a suggestion.

Chun Xiaobai rejected Bai Yutang’s plan to charge higher prices for cultivation tickets and insisted on selling them for two thousand spirit stones each. After the group quickly sold over five hundred tickets, Chun Xiaobai noticed that nearly all the buyers were women and ordered Bai Yutang to recruit male disciples and keep the operation discreet.

• Bai Yutang proposed scarcity pricing for the entry tickets, while Chun Xiaobai chose a lower fixed price to avoid harming poorer disciples and attracting suspicion.
• Bai Yutang, Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan left to sell tickets, dividing the work between publicity, payments, and maintaining order.
• The three sold more than five hundred tickets in under an hour and brought the buyers to a cultivation spot at the foot of the mountain.
• Chun Xiaobai saw that the buyers were almost all female disciples and worried that the gathering looked conspicuous.
• Chun Xiaobai told Bai Yutang to recruit male disciples for balance and to prioritize keeping their business secret.