Recaps

Chun Xiaobai used his fake Emperor Pavilion authority to pressure He Yunting, who offered secret intelligence about demon cultivators in exchange for leniency. Chun Xiaobai separated the intelligence from the cost of his investigation, and He Yunting offered fifty billion spirit stones to cover the expenses.

• Chun Xiaobai moved closer to Zhang Xuanhe and the other four Spirit Transformation cultivators after suspecting He Yunting might turn hostile.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered guards to summon reinforcements and take everyone from the Spirit Origin Sect back for questioning, prompting He Yunting to offer vital intelligence.
• He Yunting said the Spirit Origin Sect had secretly helped track demon cultivators and asked Chun Xiaobai to report its leads and speak in its favor.
• Chun Xiaobai and Bai Jin'er insisted that the intelligence could not cancel out the expenses of their three-year investigation.
• He Yunting agreed to cover those expenses and presented Chun Xiaobai with a Storage Ring containing fifty billion spirit stones.

Chun Xiaobai’s group extorted sixty billion spirit stones from the Spirit Origin Sect by framing it for colluding with Demon Cultivators. After the group departed, He Yunting realized the sect’s own Demonic Path methods and crimes could be exposed, so he ordered everyone to evacuate and destroy evidence.

• He Yunting gave Chun Xiaobai another ten billion spirit stones, bringing the total payment to sixty billion.
• Chun Xiaobai told He Yunting to deliver the sect’s intelligence to Spirit Origin City, then left with the Image Recording Stone after Bai Yutang claimed another Demon Cultivator had fled.
• He Yunting and the elders suspected the visitors were not genuine Emperor Pavilion Envoys, but He Yunting silenced them because the recording still implicated the sect.
• He Yunting revealed that the Spirit Origin Sect’s cultivation method came from the Demonic Path and that its crimes had left evidence throughout the sect.
• He Yunting ordered the Spirit Origin Sect to evacuate immediately and destroy anything they could not take.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions escaped the Spirit Origin Sect with sixty billion spirit stones. On a hilltop, they discovered Lu Qingshan had kept half their promised payment as a fee, and the furious group beat him while Bai Yutang awkwardly claimed he had come to help.

• The Spirit Origin Sect hurriedly removed its treasures and erased traces as Chun Xiaobai and the others fled through the night.
• After reaching a hilltop, Chun Xiaobai counted sixty billion spirit stones and promised Zhang Xuanhe and the others a billion each.
• Zhou Qingyi revealed that Lu Qingshan had told them the job paid eight hundred million, and Lu Qingshan admitted he had kept half as an introduction fee.
• Zhang Xuanhe, Han Jiufeng, Sun Wujiu, and the others attacked Lu Qingshan, with Zhou Qingyi slapping him as well.
• Bai Yutang moved to join the beating, but the others stopped and left his fist in front of Lu Qingshan's face.
• Bai Yutang told Lu Qingshan he had come to save him from being hit too hard.

After the Spirit Origin Sect robbery, Lu Qingshan tried to regain his dignity, then switched to praising Chun Xiaobai when Chun threatened to dismiss him. Chun Xiaobai refused to raise the five elders’ shares, and their confrontation ended with Chun asking whether Fang Yuan had sent back the recording.

• Lu Qingshan accused Bai Yutang of disrespecting elders, but Chun Xiaobai stopped them and ordered Fang Yuan to settle Lu’s share and send him away.
• Lu Qingshan praised Chun Xiaobai’s plan to infiltrate the Spirit Origin Sect and extort sixty billion spirit stones, impressing Zhang Xuanhe and the other elders.
• Zhang Xuanhe and Han Jiufeng asked Chun Xiaobai to increase their one-billion-spirit-stone shares, citing their Spirit Transformation cultivation and help during the robbery.
• Chun Xiaobai angrily criticized the five elders for hesitating and complaining during the operation, prompting them to close in on him with their auras.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Fang Yuan whether the recording had been sent back, and Fang Yuan confirmed that he had sent it long ago.

Chun Xiaobai used a recording of the Spirit Origin Sect scheme to make Zhang Xuanhe and the other four accept their payment and leave. After they departed, he gave the remaining spirit stones to Bai Jin'er, who suggested cutting the others’ shares.

• Chun Xiaobai threatened to expose the five elders’ impersonation, extortion, and Demonic Artifact scheme if they caused trouble.
• Bai Jin'er scolded Zhang Xuanhe and the others for doing little work, and Chun Xiaobai ordered her to pay them five billion spirit stones.
• Zhang Xuanhe reconsidered the danger they had faced, but Chun Xiaobai and Bai Jin'er warned that the elders would take the blame if the scheme was exposed.
• Zhang Xuanhe and the other four left with one billion spirit stones each, while Lu Qingshan relaxed after fearing they would beat him again.
• Chun Xiaobai handed the remaining spirit stones to Bai Jin'er, who suggested the elders should have received only one billion each.

Chun Xiaobai gave Bai Jin'er and the others five billion spirit stones, while Zhang Xuanhe and his four companions realized their first extortion job had paid too little and decided to work with him again. The five returned to the hilltop, where Bai Jin'er and the others eyed them warily.

• Chun Xiaobai told Bai Jin'er and the others that their spirit stones were meant to help them raise their cultivation, and Lu Qingshan felt relieved that the beating had earned him a share of five billion spirit stones.
• A hundred li away, Zhang Xuanhe realized that his group had taken a grave risk for only one billion spirit stones, and Sun Wujiu and Han Jiufeng proposed returning to Chun Xiaobai for more jobs.
• Zhang Xuanhe argued that Chun Xiaobai had the Spirit Origin Sect trapped with the Image Recording Stone of Qian Hesong holding the Demonic Artifact, and the others agreed the sect could not safely expose the extortion.
• Zhang Xuanhe persuaded the four that working with Chun Xiaobai offered greater rewards than dangerous missions, and they turned back toward the hilltop.
• Bai Jin'er and the others hid their Storage Rings when Zhang Xuanhe and the four returned, and they watched the group warily.

Chun Xiaobai’s five Azure Cloud Sect Grand Supreme Elders returned and asked to join his scheme again, promising to follow his orders. He accepted them and called everyone together for a meeting, while Bai Jin'er remained wary and Lu Qingshan hid behind him.

• Zhang Xuanhe and the other four returned to Chun Xiaobai and asked to be included in his next job.
• The five apologized for panicking during their previous job and promised to obey Chun Xiaobai, despite the risks and modest pay.
• Chun Xiaobai tested their resolve by laying down rules, then agreed to give them another chance.
• Bai Jin'er warned Chun Xiaobai that the five might have returned with bad intentions, but he dismissed her concerns.
• Chun Xiaobai summoned Lu Qingshan and the others for a meeting, while Lu Qingshan hid behind him from the five elders.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions targeted the Red Glow Sect, a sect that refined pills from living people, and extorted sixty billion spirit stones by posing as Emperor Pavilion Envoys. After the Red Glow Sect fled to avoid investigation, the group continued making deals across the Western Province.

• Zhang Xuanhe identified the Red Glow Sect as their next target and described its practice of refining people into pills.
• Lu Qingshan backed the plan, and Chun Xiaobai affirmed his loyalty to the Black Wind Stronghold despite his flaws.
• Two days later, the group reached the Red Glow Sect and learned that it kept mortals away because it used unsupported visitors as pill ingredients.
• Zhang Xuanhe and the other four led a nighttime operation, and the Red Glow Sect's leaders surrendered sixty billion spirit stones to the supposed Emperor Pavilion Envoys.
• The Red Glow Sect moved away to avoid an investigation, while Chun Xiaobai and his companions completed four more extortion deals across the Western Province over the next month.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions continued their lucrative tour of the Eastern Region while Mu Qinglan investigated the mysterious overnight disappearances of several sects. As fear spread, she tried to summon Azure Cloud Sect elders to investigate, only to learn that they were both away.

• Chun Xiaobai and his companions headed from the Western Province to Chong Province, planning to visit all thirty-six provinces and earn at least five trillion spirit stones.
• Mu Qinglan reviewed the Azure Cloud Sect’s increased wealth and strength, gains produced by following Chun Xiaobai’s methods.
• Mu Qinglan read reports that the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect, Spirit Origin Sect, Red Glow Sect, Mystic Yin Sect, and Black Water Gate had vanished without a trace, prompting sects across the Eastern Region to strengthen their defenses.
• Mu Qinglan summoned Grand Supreme Elder Zhang Xuanhe to investigate, but a disciple reported that he had gone out and not returned.
• Mu Qinglan then asked for Zhou Qingyi, learned she was also away, and ordered the disciple to summon Han Jiufeng instead.

Mu Qinglan discovered that Zhang Xuanhe and four other Grand Supreme Elders had vanished and locked down the Azure Cloud Sect amid a wave of sect disappearances. Meanwhile, Chun Xiaobai and the five elders split a huge extortion haul, and he began to regret taking them along.

• Mu Qinglan learned that Zhang Xuanhe, Han Jiufeng, Sun Wujiu, Zhao Chenshan, and one other Grand Supreme Elder were absent, with no one knowing where they had gone.
• Mu Qinglan contacted the sect’s other Grand Supreme Elders and Ancestors, confirmed they knew nothing, and ordered an investigation into the five elders’ movements.
• Mu Qinglan activated the Sect-Guardian Formation, doubled mountain patrols, and ordered the Azure Cloud Sect to verify all visitors and seal its checkpoints.
• On a nameless hill in Chong Province, Chun Xiaobai split three hundred billion spirit stones among himself and the five elders, giving each elder three billion.
• Zhang Xuanhe and the others celebrated their growing fortunes and asked Chun Xiaobai where they would take their next job, while Chun Xiaobai began to regret bringing them along.

Chun Xiaobai dismissed the danger of their increasingly difficult raids and decided to keep impersonating Emperor Pavilion Envoys to amass more wealth. After Zhang Xuanhe explained why the sects they had targeted were on high alert, the group looked ahead to the Eastern Region’s richer heartland and its more powerful sects.

• Chun Xiaobai warned the group that their recent targets had tightened security, while Bai Jin'er urged him to stop their raids.
• Chun Xiaobai insisted they should keep earning money before the Emperor Pavilion discovered their scheme.
• Zhang Xuanhe explained that the sects in the poorer provinces had fortified themselves against powerful sects from the Eastern Region’s heartland, not against the group.
• Bai Yutang and Chun Xiaobai grew eager to target wealthier sects farther ahead, and Chun Xiaobai told the others to choose their next target.

Chun Xiaobai and the others set out to rob the Heavenly Gang Sect after learning it had repeatedly insulted the Azure Cloud Sect. Their staged raid went awry when a sect elder recognized their demonic artifact, and a crowd of Heavenly Gang Sect elders quickly surrounded them.

• Zhang Xuanhe chose the Heavenly Gang Sect because it was on their route and had long looked down on the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Chun Xiaobai agreed to target the sect, and Bai Jin'er eagerly joined once she heard there might be wealthy targets.
• The ten disguised their auras, donned Emperor Pavilion Armor, and slipped into the Heavenly Gang Sect, where Chun Xiaobai found the quiet interior suspicious.
• Zhang Xuanhe planted a demonic longsword at a hall and accused the elder who emerged of being a demon.
• The elder recognized the Demonic Artifact, and Heavenly Gang Sect elders rushed in from every direction, surrounding Chun Xiaobai and his companions.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions faced Gu Chengfeng and the Heavenly Gang Sect elders, who challenged their claim to be Emperor Pavilion Envoys. Chun Xiaobai produced the Command Token given to him by the woman in red to prove his credentials.

• Gu Chengfeng arrived with more than thirty thousand Heavenly Gang Sect elders and questioned whether Chun Xiaobai's group were Emperor Pavilion Envoys.
• Bai Yutang claimed they looked the part, but Gu Changfeng said their armor gave them away as fakes.
• Chun Xiaobai threatened Gu Changfeng with the Demonic Artifact, making the elders uneasy about opposing the supposed Envoys.
• Gu Chengfeng demanded credentials, leaving Lu Qingshan and Zhang Xuanhe's companions alarmed.
• Chun Xiaobai took out the Command Token the woman in red had given him.

Chun Xiaobai used an Emperor Pavilion token to make Gu Chengfeng and the Heavenly Gang Sect elders submit, but Lu Qingshan accused Zhang Kui of being a demon cultivator despite his past service capturing one. The chapter ends with Lu Qingshan suspecting the Heavenly Gang Sect itself is a Demon Sect, leaving Gu Chengfeng horrified.

• Chun Xiaobai flashed his token, and Gu Chengfeng recognized the Emperor Pavilion mark and knelt with the Heavenly Gang Sect elders.
• Lu Qingshan confronted Gu Chengfeng and demanded that he look at Zhang Kui, whom the group suspected of being a demon cultivator.
• Gu Chengfeng explained that Zhang Kui had fought and captured a demon three hundred years earlier, damaging his cultivation in the process.
• Lu Qingshan twisted Zhang Kui's history into evidence that he had used his service to conceal his identity as a demon cultivator.
• Gu Chengfeng defended Zhang Kui, fearing the accusation would bring disaster upon the Heavenly Gang Sect.
• Lu Qingshan accused Gu Chengfeng of shielding a demon and declared that the Heavenly Gang Sect might be a Demon Sect in disguise.

Gu Chengfeng concluded that the Emperor Pavilion had destroyed other sects for consorting with demons and decided the Heavenly Gang Sect had no chance of surviving an investigation. He led the sect’s elders in attacking the Emperor Pavilion envoys, and Chun Xiaobai fled before turning back after remembering the Third Boss and the others were still inside.

• Gu Chengfeng suspected the Emperor Pavilion had secretly erased more than a dozen Eastern Region sects accused of dealing with demons.
• Chun Xiaobai noticed Gu Chengfeng and the elders secretly communicating and preparing to fight, while Lu Qingshan mistakenly believed they had submitted.
• Gu Chengfeng ordered the Heavenly Gang Sect’s elders to fight the envoys to the death, and they surged forward with killing intent.
• Chun Xiaobai tried to flee as the elders attacked Zhang Xuanhe and his four companions, whose defensive treasures absorbed the strike; Bai Jin'er and her companions were also blasted away and injured.
• Chun Xiaobai escaped hundreds of miles, then remembered the Third Boss and the others were still inside the Heavenly Gang Sect and charged back.

Chun Xiaobai returned to help his companions escape, then used the Martial God Tower to survive a devastating attack from dozens of Grand Supreme Elders. The elders tried to pursue Bai Jin'er and the others, but Chun Xiaobai reappeared behind them, apparently unharmed.

• Chun Xiaobai ordered Zhang Xuanhe and his four companions to turn back and cover the retreat, threatening to demand his spirit stones back if they refused.
• Chun Xiaobai found Bai Jin'er and escaped with her while Fang Yuan followed, but Gu Chengfeng and the elders attacked Zhang Xuanhe's group as they turned back.
• Dozens of pursuers surrounded Chun Xiaobai, Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan, so Chun Xiaobai told the other two to flee while he held them off.
• Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan joined Chun Xiaobai in using fifth-tier Swift Travel Talismans to escape, and the pursuers unleashed a combined attack on Chun Xiaobai.
• Chun Xiaobai vanished into the Martial God Tower as the attack struck, and the elders assumed he had been killed before turning to chase Bai Jin'er and the others.
• Chun Xiaobai reappeared behind the elders, brushing dust from himself and asking where they thought they were going.

Chun Xiaobai used the Martial God Tower to evade the Heavenly Gang Sect elders’ attacks while Bai Jin'er and the others escaped with talismans and treasures. Gu Chengfeng halted the pursuit and ordered the sect to flee, fearing the Emperor Pavilion’s response.

• Chun Xiaobai repeatedly vanished into the Martial God Tower to survive the elders’ combined attacks and buy time for his companions.
• Bai Jin'er and four others covered in soot used stacks of talismans to speed away as Gu Chengfeng led the elders in pursuit.
• Gu Chengfeng’s elders watched the five escape after they vanished, but he stopped his forces from chasing them farther.
• Gu Chengfeng ordered the Heavenly Gang Sect to gather its valuables, evacuate its disciples, and erase the sect’s records and traces.
• Gu Chengfeng silenced doubts about the envoys’ identities and insisted that the sect leave first rather than risk provoking them.

Chun Xiaobai was trapped inside the Martial God Tower while Heavenly Gang Sect elders guarded its exit, then found they had all left and feared they had captured the Third Boss. He reached the rendezvous point and found Bai Jin'er and the others alive, but battered, as Zhang Xuanhe began explaining how their negotiations had gone wrong.

• Gu Chengfeng and the Heavenly Gang Sect elders decided to relocate quickly rather than risk the sect’s two million lives after Chun Xiaobai exposed them.
• Chun Xiaobai replenished his spiritual power by consuming expensive spirit herbs while dozens of elders waited outside the Martial God Tower.
• Chun Xiaobai emerged from the tower and discovered the elders and Heavenly Gang Sect disciples had vanished, so he worried they had caught the Third Boss.
• Chun Xiaobai rushed to the rendezvous point and found Bai Jin'er, Zhang Xuanhe, Han Jiufeng, and the others battered but safe.
• Chun Xiaobai berated Zhang Xuanhe, who said Gu Chengfeng had already been on his knees before the situation turned against them.

After the deal with the Heavenly Gang Sect fell apart, Chun Xiaobai’s group blamed Lu Qingshan for provoking them, then beat him before Chun Xiaobai broke up the fight. The group worried the sect would search for them, but Chun Xiaobai reassured them that the Image Recording Stone could keep the sect quiet and scolded Zhang Xuanhe for being unreliable.

• Han Jiufeng and the others blamed Lu Qingshan for pushing Gu Chengfeng and his people into rebellion with his threats.
• Zhang Xuanhe, Sun Wujiu, Zhou Qingyi, and the others pinned Lu Qingshan down and beat him, while Bai Yutang, Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan joined in.
• Chun Xiaobai stopped the beating, and Lu Qingshan dropped his complaints when Chun Xiaobai offered to pay his medical expenses.
• Fang Yuan and the others worried the Heavenly Gang Sect would search for them, but Chun Xiaobai showed them the Image Recording Stone as leverage against the sect.
• Chun Xiaobai turned to Zhang Xuanhe and asked him to be more reliable next time.

After hearing that the Cold Abyss Sect’s disciples murdered rivals and seized their treasures in Secret Realms, Chun Xiaobai chose the sect as the group’s next target. The group prepared a quieter approach and studied the sect before setting out.

• Zhang Xuanhe suggested targeting the wealthy, secluded Cold Abyss Sect, and Sun Wujiu and Lu Qingshan described its disciples’ habit of killing other sects’ members inside Secret Realms.
• Chun Xiaobai learned that Sun Wujiu’s and Zhao Chenshan’s personal disciples had disappeared in a Secret Realm alongside Cold Abyss Sect disciples, who returned with other sects’ belongings.
• Chun Xiaobai declared that the Cold Abyss Sect would be their target and rejected Bai Jin’er’s request to rest before they went.
• The group studied the Cold Abyss Sect and planned to keep a low profile, speak little, and name their demands only at the crucial moment.

Chun Xiaobai and his group reached the wealthy, secluded Cold Abyss Sect and slipped into its rear mountain to search for treasure. Chun Xiaobai spotted an unusually powerful wealth aura near a grand hall, while the eerie cold around the group left Lu Qingshan uneasy.

• Chun Xiaobai led the group north to the Cold Abyss Sect after Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang finished tinkering.
• The group found no patrols near the sect and hid until nightfall before sneaking inside.
• The group felt an unsettling chill in the sect’s heart, though Chun Xiaobai felt unusually comfortable.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and saw few disciples but a great deal of wealth on the rear mountain.
• Chun Xiaobai fixed his attention on a distant grand hall as Lu Qingshan began to mention a familiar aura.

Chun Xiaobai and Zhang Xuanhe’s group tried to expose the Cold Abyss Sect, but discovered that its leaders and elders were demon cultivators and fled under attack. Chun Xiaobai escaped far ahead with Swift Travel Talismans, leaving Zhang Xuanhe and the others to cover his retreat.

• Zhang Xuanhe planted a demonic artifact on the hall’s door, but the old man who emerged confiscated it instead of raising an alarm.
• Zhang Xuanhe and Zhou Qingyi confronted the old man as Emperor Pavilion Envoys, prompting him to shatter a Black Jade Pendant and summon reinforcements.
• Li Tianxing, the Cold Abyss Sect’s Sect Master, recognized Zhang Xuanhe and ordered the elders to attack the group.
• Chun Xiaobai realized the sect was a demon den and fled with Bai Jin'er as Zhang Xuanhe and the others used armor and talismans to withstand the attack.
• Chun Xiaobai used Swift Travel Talismans to race hundreds of miles ahead while Zhang Xuanhe and the others were left behind to cover his retreat.

Fang Yuan, Bai Yutang, Chun Xiaobai, and the other Emperor Pavilion Envoys escaped the Cold Abyss Sect’s pursuit by burning through vast stores of treasures. Li Tianxing concluded their base had been exposed and ordered the sect to relocate, while Chun Xiaobai fled ten thousand li with Bai Jin'er.

• Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang outran the pursuers with Swift Travel Talismans, while Zhang Xuanhe and the other elders fell behind under attacks from Li Tianxing’s forces.
• Lu Qingshan used a Rare Treasure-grade Translocation Talisman to teleport three thousand li away, leaving the five elders to face the pursuing demons alone.
• Zhang Xuanhe and his four companions spent billions of spirit stones’ worth of treasures to survive the attacks, then destroyed a half-step Heaven Tier artifact to stop the demon cultivators’ chase.
• Li Tianxing recognized that the Envoys might be connected to the mysterious disappearance of sects and ordered the Cold Abyss Sect to gather its disciples, erase its traces, and relocate.
• Li Tianxing suspected the Envoys had found the sect by chance, while Chun Xiaobai carried Bai Jin'er ten thousand li away and nearly exhausted his spiritual power.

After escaping a demon sect, Chun Xiaobai reunited with his companions, who had been injured and infected with demonic qi by the demon cultivators. He discovered that the Martial God Art let him absorb the qi, and realized it could be worth five hundred million spirit stones in refined herbs.

• Chun Xiaobai escaped the Cold Abyss Sect with Bai Jin'er and met Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang, who lamented the two billion spirit stones they had spent on Swift Travel Talismans.
• Lu Qingshan arrived and blamed Zhang Xuanhe for leading them into the demon sect, but Zhang Xuanhe and the others soon appeared, badly injured and wreathed in demonic qi.
• Han Jiufeng and Zhao Chenshan explained that the demon cultivators' attacks had filled them with demonic qi that resisted their efforts to expel it and corrupted their spiritual power.
• Chun Xiaobai used the Martial God Art while touching Zhang Xuanhe and absorbed all the demonic qi from his body.
• Chun Xiaobai realized that absorbing the demonic qi was equivalent to refining five hundred million spirit stones' worth of spirit herbs.

Chun Xiaobai removed the demonic qi from his companions, who wondered whether he was a demon himself, then rejected their plan to report the Cold Abyss Sect to the Emperor Pavilion for a reward. He explained why their usual intimidation tactics had failed in the Eastern Region's Twelve Provinces, while his followers reaffirmed their trust in him as their leader.

• Chun Xiaobai absorbed the demonic qi from Zhou Qingyi and the others, prompting Lu Qingshan to ask whether he was a demon too.
• Bai Jin'er defended Chun Xiaobai, and he told the group to leave if they suspected him; they insisted they wanted to stay and recover their losses.
• Lu Qingshan proposed reporting the Cold Abyss Sect to the Emperor Pavilion for rewards, but Chun Xiaobai and the others argued that the plan was risky and less profitable than collecting hush money.
• Fang Yuan asked why the group had failed twice, and Chun Xiaobai explained that the powerful, ruthless sects of the Twelve Provinces would not submit easily to threats.
• Zhang Xuanhe and the others reflected on Chun Xiaobai's planning, fairness, and leadership, and felt honored to follow him.