Recaps

After two failed schemes, Chun Xiaobai decided his group needed more powerful cultivators to intimidate their targets and ordered Lu Qingshan to recruit them. Lu Qingshan accepted the task and promised to find capable experts from the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Bai Jin'er cautiously suggested quitting, but Chun Xiaobai refused to abandon the chance to profit from the Twelve Provinces of the Eastern Region.
• Lu Qingshan praised Chun Xiaobai and was asked to recruit more powerful allies.
• Zhang Xuanhe objected that new recruits could leak their secrets or reduce their shares, while Lu Qingshan argued for bringing in more people.
• Chun Xiaobai explained that a larger force could have cowed the Heavenly Gang Sect and protected them from attack.
• Zhang Xuanhe, Sun Wujiu, and Zhou Qingyi offered to recruit experts, but Chun Xiaobai assigned the task to Lu Qingshan.
• Chun Xiaobai told Lu Qingshan to recruit strong, sharp-witted people, and Lu promised to find experts from the Azure Cloud Sect.

Lu Qingshan set off to recruit people from the Azure Cloud Sect while Chun Xiaobai and the others waited at their rendezvous point. Meanwhile, Ling Tianchen and the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance investigated the ruined Heavenly Gang Sect, finding signs of a major battle but no blood or clues explaining the disappearance of its people.

• Chun Xiaobai instructed Lu Qingshan to recruit people from the Azure Cloud Sect, and Lu Qingshan flew off after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The chapter noted that Bai Jin'er, Fang Yuan, and Bai Yutang had reached the Golden Core Realm, while Bai Jin'er aimed to become worthy of the Great King.
• Ling Tianchen led the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance to investigate the ruins of the Heavenly Gang Sect after nearly twenty sects had vanished overnight.
• The sect masters searched the ruins but found no useful clues, and Mu Qinglan pointed out clear signs of battle without any trace of blood.
• The Alliance members debated how a Spirit Transformation-level battle could have caused so much destruction without anyone apparently dying.

Mu Qinglan and Ling Tianchen’s alliance investigated the vanished Cold Abyss Sect and found evidence of a devastating battle, including traces of powerful talismans and a Heaven-Tier Magical Artifact. The sect’s millions of disciples, its master Li Tianxing, its spirit veins, and its facilities had all disappeared without leaving any auras, deepening the mystery.

• Ling Tianchen and the sect masters dismissed the idea that the Heavenly Gang Sect had fled, then received word that millions of Cold Abyss Sect disciples had vanished overnight.
• Ling Tianchen led the fleet to the Cold Abyss Sect, where the investigators found that every trace of aura had been concealed.
• Mu Qinglan identified lightning damage as the work of a Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talisman and followed the battle scars southeast.
• Mu Qinglan and the others found destruction caused by the self-detonation of a Heaven-Tier Magical Artifact and concluded that the Cold Abyss Sect had fought a powerful enemy.
• Mu Qinglan questioned how the sect could have fought back yet vanished entirely, and the group realized its people, spirit veins, and cultivation facilities were all gone.

While investigating the Cold Abyss Sect, Mu Qinglan connected the disappearances of twenty leading sects to a possible formation spanning the Eastern Region. The sect masters wanted to alert the Emperor Pavilion, but Mu Qinglan warned that it would not act until the threat unfolded.

• Mu Qinglan noted that the twenty vanished sects were provincial leaders and marked their locations on a map.
• Mu Qinglan and the sect masters saw that the locations formed an arc that might encircle the Eastern Region.
• Mu Qinglan proposed that a mysterious being was removing sects to use their sites and earth veins as foundations for a forbidden formation.
• The sect masters agreed the suspected formation could signal a grave conspiracy and called for the Emperor Pavilion to be informed.
• Mu Qinglan explained that the Emperor Pavilion only intervened to slay demons and vanquish devils, so it would not act before the conspiracy unfolded.

Ling Tianchen organized the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance to investigate the mysterious force destroying sects, ordering each sect to provide elders or spirit stones for the operation. Mu Qinglan headed to the Azure Cloud Sect to recruit members, while Lu Qingshan arrived there with a mission and wondered who should receive his heaven-defying opportunity.

• Ling Tianchen and the sect masters agreed to investigate the mysterious being themselves and set an ambush along its predicted route.
• Ling Tianchen issued an Alliance Venerable Order requiring each sect to send twenty Grand Supreme Elders or pay one hundred million spirit stones per missing elder.
• Mu Qinglan decided to send idle Grand Supreme Elders and piloted her sect's warship toward the Azure Cloud Sect to gather people for the operation.
• Lu Qingshan bought a half-step Heaven Tier flying boat and reached the Azure Cloud Sect in half a day.
• Lu Qingshan wondered who should receive his heaven-defying opportunity.

Lu Qingshan recruited seventy Grand Supreme Elders by claiming he had found an ancient secret realm full of treasures. He arrived at their meeting the next morning to find the elders glaring at one another, and Li Qingfeng scolded him for telling so many people.

• Lu Qingshan decided to recruit seventy Grand Supreme Elders and handed out gifts to disciples on his way to the elders’ cave abodes.
• Li Qingfeng rejected Lu Qingshan’s offer until Lu revealed his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation and claimed he had found an ancient secret realm.
• Li Qingfeng believed Lu Qingshan’s story, sealed off the area, and agreed to help retrieve the treasures.
• Lu Qingshan repeated the secret-realm story to dozens of Grand Supreme Elders and recruited all seventy.
• Lu Qingshan arrived at the meeting place the next morning, where Li Qingfeng scolded him for telling so many people about the secret realm.

Lu Qingshan took more than seventy Azure Cloud Sect elders to a vast Treasure Vault, while Mu Qinglan discovered that all the sect’s resident Grand Supreme Elders had left without telling her where they were going. Unable to reach them, she contacted the Ancestor and summoned the Twelve Halls’ masters and Core Elders to respond to the crisis.

• Lu Qingshan told his martial uncles that the Treasure Vault was so large it would take half a year to empty, and they boarded his Flying Boat to go there.
• Mu Qinglan saw a fast-moving Flying Boat near the sect but could not identify it, then returned to begin recruiting Grand Supreme Elders for an assignment.
• Mu Qinglan learned that Elder Li Qingfeng, Elder Chen, and every other Grand Supreme Elder who usually resided in the sect was absent.
• Mu Qinglan searched the elders’ Grotto Heaven and tried contacting the missing elders, but found no trace of them and received no replies.
• Mu Qinglan contacted the Ancestor and confirmed he was in the sect, then summoned the masters of the Twelve Halls and dozens of Core Elders.

Mu Qinglan discovered that the Azure Cloud Sect’s Grand Supreme Elders had vanished and worried about the two billion spirit stones she owed, while Lu Qingshan brought seventy elders to meet Chun Xiaobai in Azure Province. The chapter ended with Chun Xiaobai greeting the bewildered elders as Zhang Xuanhe and the others hid from their hot-tempered seniors.

• Mu Qinglan ordered the Twelve Halls Masters and Core Elders to investigate the missing Grand Supreme Elders, then realized she still had to pay two billion spirit stones.
• Mu Qinglan searched for Lu Qingshan after he failed to answer her messages and concluded that he had disappeared with the elders.
• Lu Qingshan piloted a half-step Heaven Tier Flying Boat carrying seventy elders toward Azure Province, while the elders questioned why they were not heading to a secret realm.
• Chun Xiaobai and Zhang Xuanhe spotted the incoming Flying Boat, and Zhang Xuanhe led his companions to hide from the Azure Cloud Sect’s hotheaded elders.
• Chun Xiaobai went forward to welcome the elders before the Flying Boat landed.

Lu Qingshan tried to pass the newcomers off as his nephews, while Zhang Xuanhe and the others denied knowing him until Chun Xiaobai stopped their argument. The group prepared to enter the supposed secret realm, with Lu Qingshan inventing a reason for the Grand Supreme Elders to wear armor as Sun Wancai watched.

• Lu Qingshan introduced Chun Xiaobai and the others as his nephews and niece, prompting Chun Xiaobai to silently resent him.
• Zhang Xuanhe and the others turned around and greeted the elders, then denied being close to Lu Qingshan until he accused them of asking him to bring everyone.
• Chun Xiaobai silenced the quarrel and dropped more than eighty suits of armor for the elders to wear before setting out.
• Lu Qingshan claimed the armor could evade the secret realm's restrictions, and Chun Xiaobai urged the elders to hurry or lose part of their shares.
• Li Qingfeng challenged Chun Xiaobai's authority, but Lu Qingshan explained that Chun Xiaobai had discovered the secret realm, so Li Qingfeng apologized and agreed to the plan.
• The elders hesitated over wearing the shabby-looking armor as Sun Wancai's eyes shifted.

Chun Xiaobai gathered eighty Azure Cloud Sect Grand Supreme Elders and led them toward the wealthy Elixir Cauldron Sect, claiming they were searching for a Secret Realm. As Chun Xiaobai slipped ahead toward the sect, Li Qingfeng began to suspect Lu Qingshan had brought them into a scheme.

• Sun Wancai and the other elders put on the armor Chun Xiaobai had prepared, while Bai Jin'er, Bai Yutang, and Fang Yuan worried whether he could control the group.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered the elders to move out and had Zhang Xuanhe lead them toward the Elixir Cauldron Sect in Danyang Province.
• Li Qingfeng noticed Chun Xiaobai acting furtively as the group traveled and grew suspicious of his caution.
• Chun Xiaobai told everyone to conceal their auras when several figures flew past, then sped toward the Elixir Cauldron Sect.
• Li Qingfeng questioned whether a Secret Realm could be inside the well-explored sect and pulled Lu Qingshan back, accusing him of trying to deceive them.

Chun Xiaobai led Lu Qingshan, Li Qingfeng, and the others to the Elixir Cauldron Sect, claiming a secret realm lay inside it. The group found the sect heavily guarded with its fifth-tier Sect-Guardian Formation activated, and Li Qingfeng grew furious when Chun Xiaobai confirmed the secret realm was inside the sect's blessed land.

• Lu Qingshan told the Grand Supreme Elders that Chun Xiaobai could sense secret realms and that one was inside the Elixir Cauldron Sect.
• Chun Xiaobai scolded the elders for delaying them, while Zhang Xuanhe persuaded Li Qingfeng to cooperate by showing him more than thirty billion spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai led the group to the sect's rear mountain, where they saw patrols and the Sect-Guardian Formation activated.
• Li Qingfeng explained that sects had strengthened their defenses after mysterious disappearances in the Eastern Region, but Zhang Xuanhe and the others suspected their own actions had caused it.
• Chun Xiaobai confirmed the secret realm was inside the sect's blessed land, and Li Qingfeng confronted him angrily as Zhang Xuanhe tried to hold him back.

Chun Xiaobai used the Heaven-Rending Hand to silently tear open the Elixir Cauldron Sect’s fifth-tier formation and led the Grand Supreme Elders into its forbidden rear mountain. While they hid near a great hall, he threw a demonic sword at its entrance, causing the doors to open.

• Chun Xiaobai tore a person-sized opening in the Sect-Guardian Formation without triggering an alarm, though the feat cost him nearly half his spiritual power.
• Chun Xiaobai led Li Qingfeng, Zhang Xuanhe, and more than eighty Grand Supreme Elders through the formation and toward the Elixir Cauldron Sect’s rear mountain.
• The group hid on the rafters of a great hall as Li Qingfeng wondered whether Chun Xiaobai intended to steal pills.
• Chun Xiaobai produced a sword wreathed in demonic qi and threw it into a pillar beside the hall’s entrance.
• The sword struck the same spot as before, and the great hall’s doors slowly opened.

Chun Xiaobai and the Emperor Pavilion group confronted Dan Chen after mistaking a demonic artifact for proof of demon activity at the Elixir Cauldron Sect. The chapter left the sect’s master, Gu Changfeng, facing the constables as Li Qingfeng and the other elders hid nearby.

• Dan Chen found a sword leaking demonic qi and called for help, believing demon cultivators had invaded.
• Chun Xiaobai and Zhang Xuanhe’s group jumped down and accused Dan Chen of colluding with demon cultivators.
• Dan Chen denied the accusation and explained that the sword had already been stuck by his doorway, but Bai Jin'er demanded to know how many demons the sect was hiding.
• Li Qingfeng and the other elders tried to escape, but the Elixir Cauldron Sect’s people sensed them and called them out as demons.
• Gu Changfeng arrived, recognized the group’s armor as belonging to Emperor Pavilion constables, and asked whether they were from the pavilion.

Chun Xiaobai confronted Gu Changfeng at the Elixir Cauldron Sect while disguised as an Emperor Pavilion envoy, and Gu Changfeng tried to explain away the demonic artifact. When Gu Changfeng seemed ready to fight back, Li Qingfeng and the hidden elders revealed their overwhelming strength, leaving the sect terrified.

• Chun Xiaobai slapped Gu Changfeng, and Li Qingfeng realized the group was wearing Emperor Pavilion envoy armor and feared the consequences of impersonating envoys.
• Chun Xiaobai demanded an explanation for the demonic artifact, while Gu Changfeng claimed demon cultivators had infiltrated the region and the artifact had fallen from the sky.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered Gu Changfeng and the others to come with him for an investigation, and Gu Changfeng considered resisting.
• Chun Xiaobai waved an Image Recording Talisman and gave the signal to seize the sect, while Li Qingfeng ordered the hidden elders to capture Chun Xiaobai and blame him for the deception.
• More than eighty Spirit Transformation Realm experts revealed their auras, and Gu Changfeng and the Elixir Cauldron Sect elders prostrated themselves in terror.

Chun Xiaobai and his group extorted two hundred billion spirit stones from the Elixir Cauldron Sect by accusing it of harboring a demonic artifact. After Chun Xiaobai threatened the sect with an image recording and led his group away, he explained their elders’ shaking as Parkinson’s Disease and escaped through the formation.

• Zhang Xuanhe and Gu Changfeng claimed the Elixir Cauldron Sect was not a Demon Sect, and Zhang suggested demanding a hundred billion spirit stones.
• Gu Changfeng offered two hundred billion spirit stones to save the sect, while Li Qingfeng realized Chun Xiaobai was deliberately extorting it.
• Gu Changfeng recognized the group’s scheme, but Chun Xiaobai returned an image recording of Dan Chen with the demonic artifact as a warning.
• Bai Jin'er collected ten Storage Rings, and Chun Xiaobai ordered his group to leave.
• When the Elixir Cauldron Sect elders noticed the departing group’s old members shaking, Chun Xiaobai blamed Parkinson’s Disease and escaped through the sect’s formation.

After Chun Xiaobai and his companions extorted two hundred billion spirit stones from the Elixir Cauldron Sect, Gu Changfeng realized the Emperor Pavilion Envoys might be using the sect’s scandal as leverage. He ordered the sect to relocate rather than risk another visit, while the elders accepted that their home and wealth were no longer safe.

• Chun Xiaobai and his companions tore through the Elixir Cauldron Sect’s Fifth Tier formation and left after extorting the sect.
• The elders accused Dan Chen of harboring a Demonic Artifact and moved to arrest him, but Gu Changfeng stopped them.
• Gu Changfeng declared that Dan Chen had been framed and ordered the sect to prepare to relocate.
• The elders realized Gu Changfeng believed the Emperor Pavilion Envoys had deliberately extorted them, but they hesitated to pursue the envoys for fear of provoking the Emperor Pavilion.
• A white-haired Ancestor warned that the envoys might return after profiting from their visit, convincing the elders that relocation was necessary.

Chun Xiaobai divided the spirit stones earned from the Elixir Cauldron Sect among the Azure Cloud Sect elders, then crushed their attempt to demand more by offering others a fortune to beat them. The elders backed down, and Chun Xiaobai established that he was in charge as they continued their lucrative scheme.

• The Azure Cloud Sect elders followed Chun Xiaobai and watched eagerly as he ordered Bai Jin'er to give each of them five hundred million spirit stones.
• Li Yuanqiu objected that the elders deserved more for helping earn two hundred billion spirit stones, and several others joined his protest.
• Chun Xiaobai offered five billion spirit stones and a one-billion bonus to anyone who beat the protesting elders, prompting Li Yuanqiu and his companions to panic.
• Li Qingfeng and the others secretly urged the protesters to take the beating and split the reward, but Li Yuanqiu refused so they would not lose the chance to keep working with Chun Xiaobai.
• Li Yuanqiu and the other elders praised Chun Xiaobai and declared five hundred million each fair, while Chun Xiaobai made clear who was in charge.

Chun Xiaobai paid the elders and his veteran followers for helping him extort sects, then the elders confronted Zhang Xuanhe over being drawn into the scheme. Lu Qingshan blamed Zhang Xuanhe for giving him permission, leaving the martial uncle furious at the accusation.

• Chun Xiaobai awarded Zhang Xuanhe and the other veterans three billion spirit stones each, while the temporary workers received five hundred million apiece.
• Chun Xiaobai mocked the elders’ poor performance, and Bai Jin’er distributed their spirit stones and encouraged them.
• The elders admired Chun Xiaobai’s audacity and leadership, and several celebrated the fortune they expected to make by following him.
• Li Qingfeng grabbed Zhang Xuanhe by the collar and accused him of setting the elders up through Lu Qingshan.
• Lu Qingshan claimed Zhang Xuanhe had given him permission, prompting Zhang Xuanhe to angrily call him shameless.

Chun Xiaobai learned that the Joywater Sect was tied to Li Qingfeng’s painful past and decided to lead everyone there anyway. Li Qingfeng set aside his grudge when he realized the expedition could bring in more spirit stones, and the group headed northwest toward the sect.

• Li Qingfeng and the others beat Zhang Xuanhe before realizing that his scheme had earned them five hundred million spirit stones.
• Zhang Xuanhe suggested visiting the Joywater Sect, and Li Qingfeng tried to attack him again until Chun Xiaobai intervened.
• Li Yuanqiu explained that Li Qingfeng’s former Dao companion, Mu Feirao, had joined the Joywater Sect and become its Sacred Consort after using him to pursue Azure Cloud Sect resources.
• Zhou Qingyi told Chun Xiaobai that Mu Feirao had sought Li Qingfeng’s help competing for the Saintess position, then left after he refused to favor her.
• Chun Xiaobai promised to make Li Qingfeng’s grudge his own, and Li Qingfeng agreed to go after the Joywater Sect for the spirit stones.
• The group cleaned and put away their armor before setting out northwest toward the Joywater Sect headquarters.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions infiltrated the Joywater Sect, but the beauties inside distracted the elders and scattered the group. Chun Xiaobai and Li Qingfeng headed for the top floor to confront Mu Feirao and reached a private room with a Demonic Artifact in hand.

• Chun Xiaobai's group arrived in Joywater City and waited until night to gather and approach the Joywater Sect.
• The group paid for entry to the sect's enormous pavilion, where Bai Jin'er and the female elders were turned away because women were not allowed inside.
• Chun Xiaobai reached the meeting place, but Zhang Xuanhe and the other elders failed to appear after becoming lost among the women.
• Li Qingfeng told Chun Xiaobai that Mu Feirao was overseeing the Treasure Vault, and they agreed to act without the others.
• Chun Xiaobai and Li Qingfeng paid for access to the top floor, entered a private room, and Chun Xiaobai produced the Demonic Artifact.

Chun Xiaobai and Li Qingfeng confronted Mu Feirao, the Joywater Sect’s Sect Master, after planting a Demonic Artifact to expose her. Chun Xiaobai’s Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye revealed that she really was a Demon Cultivator, but Mu Feirao still refused to confess.

• Li Qingfeng threw a Demonic Artifact into Mu Feirao’s room, then accused her of being a demon when Chun Xiaobai entered with him.
• Mu Feirao challenged their accusation and claimed she had come from the Azure Cloud Sect and practiced the Joywater Sect’s orthodox cultivation art.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and saw demonic radiance around Mu Feirao, confirming she was a Demon Cultivator.
• Mu Feirao blasted a hole through a pillar with spiritual power to prove her art was orthodox, but Chun Xiaobai dismissed it as a trick.
• Mu Feirao realized more than sixty unfamiliar Spirit Transformation Realm powerhouses had surrounded the sect and wondered how Chun Xiaobai had found her.
• Chun Xiaobai threatened to send Mu Feirao to the Emperor Pavilion’s Demon Refining Pagoda, but she continued to deny the accusation.

Chun Xiaobai and Li Qingfeng let Mu Feirao believe they were Emperor Pavilion envoys and accepted her bribe, while she secretly planned to use a recording as leverage over them. After escaping her room, Chun Xiaobai ordered Zhang Xuanhe and the others to withdraw before they could make their move.

• Chun Xiaobai prepared to test Mu Feirao as a Demon Cultivator, but Li Qingfeng interrupted and suggested they investigate further.
• Li Qingfeng complained about their investigation expenses, and Mu Feirao offered them three hundred billion spirit stones to cover the costs.
• Chun Xiaobai accepted Mu Feirao's jade bracelet while she pressed him for a way to contact him and secretly relied on Image Recording Formations to capture the exchange.
• Chun Xiaobai tossed Mu Feirao an Image Recording Stone, then dragged the shaking Li Qingfeng out of the room.
• Mu Feirao checked the recording and vowed to tear down the Emperor Pavilion once she reached the Void Insight Realm.
• Chun Xiaobai and Li Qingfeng met Zhang Xuanhe and the others downstairs, kicked them, and ordered them to withdraw before they had made their move.

After Chun Xiaobai’s group escaped the Joywater Sect, they shared the three hundred billion and set their sights on the Myriad Artifacts Sect, where Chun Xiaobai warned everyone to prepare for greater danger. On the way, they encountered a force of over fifty thousand people, and Chen Dazhi asked Zhang Xuanhe why the elders had come to the Southern Region.

• Chun Xiaobai gave Li Qingfeng five hundred million and gifted Bai Jin'er a high-grade storage bracelet while the group divided the money.
• Chun Xiaobai reflected on the growing danger of their journey as Zhang Xuanhe identified the Myriad Artifacts Sect as their next destination.
• Chun Xiaobai called a meeting and urged the group to prepare thoroughly for the more dangerous top-tier sects ahead.
• The group set out for the Myriad Artifacts Sect and encountered more than fifty thousand people led by Chen Dazhi.
• Chen Dazhi recognized Zhang Xuanhe and asked why he and the other elders had come to the Southern Region instead of inspecting the Skyvault Northern Route.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions extorted sects across the Southern Region while Li Qingfeng kept him unaware that the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance was searching for them. The Alliance Leader, Ling Tianchen, learned that rumors of a clue had surfaced and urged the search to continue, secretly hoping the truth would stay hidden so he could keep collecting investigation funds.

• Chen Dazhi’s patrol encountered Chun Xiaobai’s group, and Li Qingfeng invented a story about a mysterious curse to keep Chun Xiaobai in the dark about the search for them.
• Chun Xiaobai’s group reached the Myriad Artifacts Sect, took three hundred billion from its Sect Master, and continued searching for targets.
• The group swept through the Southern Region in less than ten days, prompting every sect they had extorted to move away.
• Lin Zheng told Ling Tianchen that five more sects had disappeared and that rumors of clues had circulated, and Ling Tianchen secretly celebrated that the clues remained unconfirmed.

Ling Tianchen increased the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance’s demands for the search for vanished sects, while Mu Qinglan struggled to protect the Azure Cloud Sect and conceal the disappearance of its elders. The chapter ended with Chun Xiaobai admiring the three trillion five hundred billion he had earned over three months.

• Ling Tianchen ordered the Left Protector to make every sect send ten more Grand Supreme Elders to the Divine Inquiry Army, while privately celebrating the chance to collect more money.
• Mu Qinglan learned that the Azure Cloud Sect could not spare the required elders, so she sent another billion spirit stones to the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance.
• Mu Qinglan worried that the Azure Cloud Sect’s missing Grand Supreme Elders signaled a new strange phenomenon and summoned the sect’s leaders to strengthen its defenses.
• Chun Xiaobai admired his accumulated storage treasures after Bai Jin'er tallied his three months of earnings at three trillion five hundred billion.