Recaps

Chun Xiaobai discovered he could cultivate by crushing spirit stones into water and using his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to guide the energy through his body. He successfully tempered himself and left the chapter celebrating his first ranged spiritual attack.

• Chun Xiaobai realized his rampage state might have activated because his strength had grown, but worried about its heavy energy demands.
• Chun Xiaobai crushed a spirit stone into tea, drank it, and sensed warm energy in his abdomen through his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye.
• Chun Xiaobai studied the Azure Cloud Manual and learned to guide the energy through his body by focusing his thoughts on its glow.
• Chun Xiaobai drank water mixed with five hundred crushed spirit stones and pushed the energy through his muscles, blood, and meridians to temper his body.
• Chun Xiaobai gathered the energy in his right arm and punched a hole through the cultivation chamber wall with a ranged spiritual attack.

After reaching the first layer of Qi Refining by spending eleven hundred spirit stones, Chun Xiaobai tested his Rampage state and was transported to a sealed copper-colored space. There, he found walls covered with martial arts illustrations and unreadable symbols.

• Chun Xiaobai used five hundred spirit stones to reach the first layer of Qi Refining and shattered a courtyard rockery with a punch.
• Chun Xiaobai realized his strength recovered naturally between punches, but cultivating had cost him over a hundred times more spirit stones than it did ordinary disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai activated Rampage mode and suddenly found himself inside a windowless copper-colored space.
• Chun Xiaobai examined the walls and found illustrations of finger, palm, kicking, and fist techniques.
• Chun Xiaobai reached the center of the space and found a wall covered in symbols he could not read.

After memorizing the Martial God Art in a mysterious space, Chun Xiaobai returned to the courtyard and discovered that entering it had drained his strength, though time had passed much more slowly inside. He suspected the Purple-Gold Token was connected to the space and resolved to grow stronger before the woman in red could make use of him.

• Chun Xiaobai returned to the wall and found that memorizing its symbols translated them into the words “Martial God Art.”
• He memorized the entire technique, realized it belonged to a discipline unlike immortal cultivation or familiar martial arts, and chose not to practice it yet.
• Chun Xiaobai was expelled from the mysterious space and, severely weakened, swallowed many pills before using his last two hundred spirit stones to recover his strength.
• He realized only two or three minutes had passed outside during his nearly two hours in the space and suspected the Purple-Gold Token was its key.
• Chun Xiaobai concluded that reaching the first layer of Qi Refining had let him enter the space, then feared the woman in red was fattening him up for a future betrayal and resolved to grow stronger.

Chun Xiaobai studied the Martial God Manual and discovered that combining it with his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye let him refine treasures' source essence, advancing to the second level of Blood Refining. He left his courtyard to face a crowd led by an arrogant Outer Sect disciple, Zhao Wuyuan, and two enforcement disciples, fearing Bai Jin'er had reported him.

• Chun Xiaobai repaired the hole in his cultivation room with door panels before studying the Martial God Manual.
• Chun Xiaobai learned the manual followed a body-refining path and that he had already entered the first level of Blood Refining.
• Chun Xiaobai found that absorbing ambient power was too slow and complained that advancing would take years.
• Chun Xiaobai swallowed two medicinal herbs, used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to guide their source essence through his body, and reached the second level of Blood Refining.
• Chun Xiaobai realized his divine eye supplied the sensing ability the manual lacked and celebrated his talent.
• Chun Xiaobai found a crowd outside his courtyard, including Zhao Wuyuan and two enforcement disciples, and worried that Bai Jin'er had reported him.

Chun Xiaobai faced Cheng Haoxuan in a sect-sanctioned challenge over his cave abode and persuaded him to wager his entire fortune as well. After both disciples handed their Storage Bags to Fang Yuan, they prepared to fight, and Chun Xiaobai checked that the challenge had no rules beyond preventing deaths.

• A dark-faced disciple told Chun Xiaobai that Cheng Haoxuan had come to challenge him for his cave abode, while Zhao Wuyuan watched from the crowd.
• Chun Xiaobai asked whether he could refuse, then proposed a wager to make the challenge more serious.
• Chun Xiaobai offered his entire fortune, and Cheng Haoxuan accepted and put his Storage Bag up as well.
• Chun Xiaobai handed his Storage Bag to Fang Yuan, and Cheng Haoxuan handed over his own before they took their places to fight.
• Chun Xiaobai asked the Disciplinary Hall disciples about compensation and the challenge rules, learning that anything was allowed as long as no one died.

Chun Xiaobai defeated Cheng Haoxuan with a trick and defended the win by pointing out that the sect’s challenge rules did not forbid sneak attacks. After returning to Fang Yuan’s cave abode, Chun Xiaobai learned that Cheng Haoxuan had ranked ninety-fifth among the Outer Sect’s strongest disciples.

• Chun Xiaobai distracted Cheng Haoxuan by shouting that the Sect Master had arrived, then knocked him unconscious from behind.
• Chun Xiaobai claimed the victory was fair because the challenge rules did not prohibit sneak attacks, and the Disciplinary Disciple confirmed this.
• Zhao Wuyuan helped the unconscious Cheng Haoxuan down the mountain and declined Chun Xiaobai’s challenge to stake everything they owned.
• Chun Xiaobai and Fang Yuan entered Fang Yuan’s cave abode, where Fang Yuan praised Chun Xiaobai’s tactics and explained the Outer Sect Genius Disciple Ranking.
• Chun Xiaobai learned that Cheng Haoxuan had held ninety-fifth place for over three months, then asked Fang Yuan about his own ranking.

Chun Xiaobai rewarded Fang Yuan with valuable cultivation manuals and made him his second-in-command. After Fang Yuan left, Chun Xiaobai searched the Storage Bag he had won, found a fortune in supplies, and discovered he could refine origin qi from spirit stones with the Martial God Art.

• Chun Xiaobai gave Fang Yuan three mid-grade Yellow Tier manuals, and Fang Yuan gratefully accepted his offer to serve as second-in-command.
• Fang Yuan left Chun Xiaobai’s courtyard, convinced he had finally found the benefactor his father had told him to seek.
• Chun Xiaobai opened the Storage Bag he had won and found pills, swords, spirit herbs, manuals, and exactly six thousand five hundred spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and Martial God Art to draw origin qi from the spirit stones and refine it into his body.

Chun Xiaobai spent thousands of spirit stones and a precious spirit herb to reach fourth blood refining, then faced Shi Lei, a ranked disciple who came to challenge him. The chapter ended with Chun Xiaobai acting terrified after learning Shi Lei ranked eightieth on the Outer Sect's Genius Disciple Ranking.

• Chun Xiaobai used two thousand spirit stones to reach third blood refining, then spent another four thousand five hundred and still fell short of the next breakthrough.
• Chun Xiaobai ate a spirit herb and endured two hours of agony as he opened his kidneys, reaching fourth qi refinement and feeling his strength surge.
• Chun Xiaobai's punch shattered his repaired wall, and he realized he could now thrash Zhao Wuyuan; after a day and night of cultivation, he washed away the impurities from his body.
• Chun Xiaobai opened his gate to find Shi Lei, Cheng Haoxuan, Zhao Wuyuan, and a crowd of spectators waiting outside.
• A disciple announced that Shi Lei ranked eightieth on the Outer Sect's Genius Disciple Ranking and third on the Sword Cultivator Ranking, and Chun Xiaobai pretended to be terrified.

Chun Xiaobai accepted Shi Lei’s swordsmanship challenge after Shi Lei wagered his Storage Bag, then brought Bai Jin'er into it by handing her both contestants’ bags to hold. The duel began with Chun Xiaobai charging at Shi Lei with a two-handed overhead strike, while Shi Lei met him with Sword Qi.

• Shi Lei demanded Chun Xiaobai surrender his Formation Talisman and return the Storage Bag he had won from Cheng Haoxuan, but Chun Xiaobai surrendered only the Formation Talisman.
• Shi Lei offered to challenge Chun Xiaobai for the Storage Bag and promised to protect him in the Outer Sect, wagering all the contents of his own Storage Bag if he lost.
• Chun Xiaobai agreed after the Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye revealed that Shi Lei’s Storage Bag held valuable items.
• Chun Xiaobai called Bai Jin'er over and gave her both Storage Bags to hold before the duel.
• Chun Xiaobai charged Shi Lei with a two-handed overhead sword strike, and Shi Lei countered with a streak of Sword Qi.

Chun Xiaobai defeated Shi Lei in a sword match by baiting him with his sword and then overwhelming him with punches, winning the Cave Abode and Storage Bags. After entering the Cave Abode, he announced that he would climb the Outer Sect Disciple Genius Ranking and gave Fang Yuan cultivation manuals as rewards.

• Chun Xiaobai exchanged blows with Shi Lei, then knocked his sword away and used a barrage of punches to defeat him.
• Chun Xiaobai denied cheating when the spectators accused him of fighting unfairly, and Zhao Wuyuan and Cheng Haoxuan recognized his trickery.
• Chun Xiaobai took the Storage Bags, invited further challengers, then had Bai Jin'er open the Cave Abode's defensive array.
• Fang Yuan praised Chun Xiaobai for reaching eightieth place on the Outer Sect Disciple Genius Ranking, while Bai Jin'er realized he acted like a bandit king.
• Chun Xiaobai said he would challenge the top-ranked disciples and gave Fang Yuan twenty cultivation manuals looted from Cheng Haoxuan.

Chun Xiaobai rewarded Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan with valuable cultivation manuals, then sorted his spoils and spent five thousand spirit stones trying to advance his Blood Refining cultivation. He discovered how costly further breakthroughs would be and began cultivating Divine Sense to improve his hunt for targets and investigate the treasure in his head.

• Chun Xiaobai gave Bai Jin'er cultivation manuals worth thousands of spirit stones, and Fang Yuan urged her to accept them as a reward for serving their boss.
• Chun Xiaobai inspected his haul from the ranked disciple, found spirit stones, pills, materials, and spirit herbs, and sorted the items into Storage Bags.
• Chun Xiaobai crushed five thousand spirit stones to cultivate, while Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er absorbed the Spiritual Qi that filled the courtyard.
• Chun Xiaobai found that the spirit stones barely advanced his cultivation and calculated that reaching the fifth level of Blood Refining would cost fifty thousand spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai took out the Spirit-Sensing Art and began cultivating Divine Sense.

Chun Xiaobai discovered that his divine sense could reach far beyond normal limits and penetrate defenses, then used a spirit herb and the Martial God Art to strengthen it. He found a six-story bronze Little Tower in his sea of consciousness and entered its mysterious space, where the Martial God Art had disappeared.

• Chun Xiaobai extended his divine sense through the peak master's defenses and glimpsed a woman bathing, but her counterattack sent his divine sense rushing back and left him in pain.
• Chun Xiaobai swallowed a spirit herb and used the Martial God Art to nourish his sea of consciousness, strengthening his divine sense.
• Chun Xiaobai examined his sea of consciousness and discovered an ancient six-story Little Tower at its center.
• Chun Xiaobai suspected the woman in red wanted the Little Tower and vowed to become strong enough to defeat her within ten years.
• Chun Xiaobai entered the mysterious space inside the Little Tower and found that the Martial God Art was gone.

Chun Xiaobai learned the Heaven-Rending Hand and Heaven-Treading Steps in the little tower before his time inside ran out. Back in the cultivation chamber, he heard that the peak master had summoned Green Bamboo Peak’s disciples and feared she was hunting him for peeping.

• Chun Xiaobai found a portrait resembling the woman in red and resolved to grow strong enough to withstand her.
• He learned the first level of Heaven-Rending Hand by copying its diagrams, gaining techniques for dismantling bodies and locating the nodes in mechanisms and formations.
• Chun Xiaobai studied the three moves of Heaven-Treading Steps, including stealthy movement, a cloud ladder, and Shrinking Land to Inches.
• When his time in the little tower ran out, Chun Xiaobai returned to the cultivation chamber and drank thirty bottles to recover his strength.
• Fang Yuan told Chun Xiaobai that the peak master had summoned all Green Bamboo Peak disciples to the Peak Master Hall, and Chun Xiaobai worried she had discovered his peeping.

Chun Xiaobai went with Fang Yuan to meet Green Bamboo Peak’s Peak Master, Yun Huoyue, while Bai Jin'er guarded his Cave Abode. Yun Huoyue ordered the gathered disciples to carve a rabbit from a giant radish, leaving Chun Xiaobai wary of her erratic reputation.

• Chun Xiaobai used Fang Yuan’s message from the Peak Master as an excuse to hurry to the gathering, then left Bai Jin'er to guard his Cave Abode.
• Bai Jin'er agreed to guard Chun Xiaobai’s door and reflected that he seemed more approachable than the sect’s arrogant geniuses.
• Fang Yuan told Chun Xiaobai that Yun Huoyue had once been an Inner Sect genius before offending an important figure and suffering a damaged cultivation foundation and mental state.
• Chun Xiaobai and Fang Yuan reached the Martial Arts Arena, where Chun Xiaobai noticed most of the gathered disciples were at the eighth or ninth level of Qi Refining and learned Fang Yuan was only guarding someone else’s Cave Abode.
• Yun Huoyue arrived, noticed Chun Xiaobai staring at her, and placed a giant radish and broadsword on a table.
• Yun Huoyue told the disciples to line up and carve a rabbit from the radish because she wanted to eat rabbit.

Yun Huoyue offered a Foundation Establishment Pill to the disciple who could impress her with a carved radish rabbit, dismissing nearly everyone who tried. Chun Xiaobai carved a family of rabbits and then an affectionate pair, after which Yun Huoyue dismissed the remaining disciples but ordered him to stay.

• Yun Huoyue promised a Foundation Establishment Pill to whoever carved a rabbit that pleased her and sent away disciples who showed too much excitement or disinterest.
• Yun Huoyue dismissed disciple after disciple, including skilled carvers whose lifelike rabbits failed to satisfy her.
• Yun Huoyue called Chun Xiaobai forward, and he carved a group of rabbits representing a family.
• Chun Xiaobai carved a pair of rabbits snuggling together, and Yun Huoyue's killing intent subsided.
• Yun Huoyue ordered the remaining disciples to leave but told Chun Xiaobai to stay.

Chun Xiaobai escaped Yun Huoyue, stole back the Foundation Establishment Pill, and decided she might be interested in him and could serve as his backing. When he returned to his Cave Abode, he found five disciples challenging him and demanding his Storage Bags and Cave Abode if he lost.

• Yun Huoyue questioned Chun Xiaobai about his cultivation and spying, then let him leave and wondered whether his naturally gifted soul was the one she had been waiting for.
• Chun Xiaobai returned to Yun Huoyue's residence, took the Foundation Establishment Pill, and used Heaven-Treading Steps to escape.
• Chun Xiaobai suspected Yun Huoyue had fallen for him and decided to stay at the sect because he thought she could protect him.
• Chun Xiaobai found five disciples confronting Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan outside his Cave Abode and offering their Storage Bags as stakes in a challenge.
• Chun Xiaobai used Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye on the challengers' Storage Bags and judged that they had little wealth.

Chun Xiaobai learned that Green Bamboo Peak’s lax rules let disciples from other peaks challenge for its Cave Abodes, limiting his plans to collect Storage Bags. Bai Jin'er told him he could instead challenge higher-ranked disciples at the Martial Practice Platform, and he eagerly seized on the opportunity.

• Chun Xiaobai drove away five challengers after Disciplinary Disciples reminded them he had already accepted a challenge that day.
• Chun Xiaobai studied the Outer Sect Genius Ranking and wondered why Shi Lei from Sunset Glow Peak had challenged him for a Cave Abode on Green Bamboo Peak.
• Bai Jin'er explained that Peak Master Yun Huoyue did not interfere in disciples’ affairs, so outsiders could challenge for Green Bamboo Peak’s Cave Abodes while other peaks barred outsiders.
• Bai Jin'er told Chun Xiaobai that lower-ranked disciples could challenge higher-ranked disciples on the Martial Practice Platform, where ranked disciples had to accept one challenge each month.
• Chun Xiaobai became excited about using the ranking challenges to earn money and accidentally staggered Bai Jin'er when he clapped her shoulder.

Chun Xiaobai went to the Martial Arts Arena to make his name on the genius ranking, but learned that his earlier victory over Cheng Haoxuan did not qualify. The chapter ended with Elder Fu staring at him after Chun Xiaobai called the number ninety-five-ranked disciple too weak.

• Chun Xiaobai told Bai Jin'er not to sweat the small stuff after touching her, while she blushed and questioned whether he found her attractive.
• Chun Xiaobai inspected his Storage Bag and found only battered-looking weapons and unfamiliar low-grade pills, with no spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai brought Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to the Martial Arts Arena to challenge a ranked disciple.
• Fang Yuan explained that challenges on Green Bamboo Peak did not count toward the genius ranking and introduced Elder Fu as its overseer.
• Chun Xiaobai asked to challenge number one hundred, then number ninety-nine, but Elder Fu said both disciples were absent.
• Elder Fu offered number ninety-five, Cheng Haoxuan, as an opponent, but Chun Xiaobai said he had already beaten him and demanded someone higher-ranked.

Chun Xiaobai reluctantly chose to challenge Lu Mang, ranked fiftieth on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, after learning that no lower-ranked challengers were available. Lu Mang and Chun Xiaobai traded insults before their match, which Elder Fu arranged to take place on the arena.

• Elder Fu told Chun Xiaobai that Lu Mang, ranked fiftieth, was the only available disciple he could challenge.
• Chun Xiaobai decided to challenge Lu Mang despite worrying that starting at rank fifty would cost him potential Storage Bags from lower-ranked disciples.
• Lu Mang arrived at the Heavenly Prodigy Arena and angrily demanded to meet his challenger while disciples gathered to watch.
• Chun Xiaobai identified himself as Lu Mang's challenger and mocked his build, provoking Lu Mang to summon his tiger-headed saber.
• Elder Fu stopped them from fighting off the arena and ordered them to prepare for their match, but both said they needed no preparation.

Chun Xiaobai registered for his match against Lu Mang after pretending he had forgotten his Identity Token, then questioned the rules, rewards, and whether he could cancel. When Lu Mang challenged him to name what he wanted, Chun Xiaobai proposed that they wager all their possessions, and Lu Mang accepted.

• Chun Xiaobai told Elder Fu he had forgotten his Identity Token, and Elder Fu registered him by name while Bai Jin'er worried he would be exposed as a servant disciple.
• Elder Fu explained the arena rules, and Chun Xiaobai asked whether sneak attacks were allowed and what he would gain from winning.
• After learning that ranking up brought no immediate reward, Chun Xiaobai asked to cancel the challenge, angering Elder Fu and the watching disciples.
• Lu Mang offered to wager his Tiger-Head Great Saber, but Chun Xiaobai proposed wagering their Storage Bags instead.
• Lu Mang decided Chun Xiaobai was bluffing to avoid a fight and agreed to wager everything they owned.

Chun Xiaobai wagered his fortune against Lu Mang and entered their duel on the Heavenly Prodigy Platform, pretending to be weak and frightened. He easily endured Lu Mang’s saber strike while faking being thrown back, leaving the spectators cheering for Lu Mang.

• Elder Fu accepted Chun Xiaobai and Lu Mang’s Storage Bags as the stakes and warned them that the wager could not be withdrawn.
• Fang Yuan encouraged Chun Xiaobai, while Bai Jin'er worried that he could not defeat Lu Mang.
• Chun Xiaobai and Lu Mang took their positions, and Lu Mang charged with his Tiger-Head Long Saber as Chun Xiaobai ran around the arena.
• Chun Xiaobai let his movement falter, prompting Lu Mang to launch a blood-red saber spell at him.
• Chun Xiaobai blocked the spell without being moved, then pretended to stagger backward as the spectators cheered for Lu Mang.

Chun Xiaobai used his speed and a hidden technique to make Lu Mang fall off the platform. Lu Mang claimed he had only lost his footing, but Chun Xiaobai declared victory before the baffled crowd.

• Lu Mang chased Chun Xiaobai around the platform and wore himself out while Chun Xiaobai pretended to flee.
• Chun Xiaobai backed into a corner and threatened to jump, provoking Lu Mang to grab him.
• Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Treading Steps to evade Lu Mang and flicked his core meridian with Heaven-Rending Hand-Sinew-Severing.
• Lu Mang lost his balance and fell off the platform, leaving the watching disciples and Elder Fu confused.
• Lu Mang insisted he had only lost his footing, and Chun Xiaobai announced that he had won.

Chun Xiaobai won his wager against Lu Mang and provoked the crowd into demanding another match, so Elder Fu summoned Wang Shan to challenge him. When Wang Shan arrived, Chun Xiaobai dodged his gaze, leaving the disciples to mock him as a coward.

• Elder Fu upheld the contest rules, declared Chun Xiaobai the winner, and handed him the four Storage Bags at stake.
• Chun Xiaobai celebrated his winnings while Lu Mang and the other disciples seethed over their loss.
• After the crowd taunted him to face Wang Shan, Chun Xiaobai loudly accepted a challenge and wagered everything he owned.
• Elder Fu contacted Wang Shan, who ranked forty-ninth on the heavenly prodigy ranking, and Wang Shan soon arrived at the Martial Arts Arena.
• Chun Xiaobai avoided Wang Shan's gaze, and the disciples mocked him for seeming afraid.

Chun Xiaobai accepted Wang Shan’s challenge and used a large stockpile of talismans to keep the ranked disciple on the defensive. The fight continued as Chun Xiaobai concealed his real strength and Wang Shan struggled to counter the barrage.

• Chun Xiaobai and Wang Shan wagered their Storage Bags, and Elder Fu registered their challenge.
• Chun Xiaobai entered the Challenge Platform while Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er were surrounded by angry disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai attacked Wang Shan with Fireball, Wind Blade, and Vine-Winding Talismans.
• Wang Shan raised a Gang Qi Shield, broke the vines, and dodged the talisman attacks.
• Chun Xiaobai continued bombarding Wang Shan, while Lu Mang regretted seeing his saved talismans squandered and Elder Fu wished he had told Wang Shan to hit harder.

Chun Xiaobai overwhelmed Wang Shan with talismans, humiliating and exhausting the ranked Outer Sect disciple until he fled the arena platform to escape a supposed barrage of supreme-grade Lightning Talismans. Chun Xiaobai then revealed that the talismans were only low-grade Fireball Talismans.

• Wang Shan dodged Chun Xiaobai’s talismans and tried to close the distance, but Chun Xiaobai struck him with a Lightning Talisman that made his hair stand on end.
• Chun Xiaobai exhausted his first stack of talismans, then produced another stack and forced Wang Shan back with more attacks.
• As Wang Shan’s spiritual power dwindled, Chun Xiaobai taunted him and continued pelting him with talismans until Wang Shan charged through the barrage.
• Wang Shan reached Chun Xiaobai and attacked with Sword Qi, but Chun Xiaobai dodged his slashes near the edge of the platform.
• Chun Xiaobai threatened Wang Shan with ten supposed supreme-grade Lightning Talismans, so Wang Shan leaped off the platform to escape.
• Chun Xiaobai told Wang Shan that the talismans were actually low-grade Fireball Talismans.