Recaps

Chun Xiaobai mistook Mu Qinglan’s actions for romantic interest and offered to make her his Stronghold Madam, prompting her to punch him. After the others nearly fought over him, they backed down when reminded of their shared profits, but Chun Xiaobai still demanded that Mu Qinglan explain her insult.

• Chun Xiaobai offered to take Mu Qinglan as his Stronghold Madam, and Mu Qinglan punched him into the ground.
• Bai Jin'er rushed to Chun Xiaobai's side and attacked Mu Qinglan, while Yun Huoyue declared their sisterhood over and prepared to fight too.
• The old men tried to restrain Bai Jin'er and Yun Huoyue, and Cangshan Daoist arrived and proposed dividing Chun Xiaobai's time among the three women.
• Mu Qinglan said she did not want Chun Xiaobai and insulted his appeal, angering him.
• Li Qingfeng reminded them that fighting could cost them their shared profits, so Mu Qinglan and Bai Jin'er withdrew their murderous auras.
• Chun Xiaobai stood up and demanded that Mu Qinglan explain how he had insulted her taste.

Mu Qinglan swallowed her pride to preserve the Eastern Region’s lucrative deals, while Chun Xiaobai rejected Yun Huoyue’s offer to leave the region and focused on expanding his enterprise. Cangshan Daoist began advising Yun Huoyue on pursuing Chun Xiaobai, but stopped when a message arrived from his old friend Old Loach.

• Zhou Qingyi persuaded Mu Qinglan to avoid offending Chun Xiaobai because the sect still had sacred lands to shake down, and Mu Qinglan blamed Li Qingfeng for her earlier remark.
• Chun Xiaobai warned Mu Qinglan to watch what she said, then rejected Yun Huoyue’s proposal to leave the Eastern Region and told her to get ready for work.
• Chun Xiaobai explained to himself that he needed to build his strength in the Eastern Region before pursuing his Immortal Emperor ambitions elsewhere.
• Mu Qinglan gathered the elders to arrange their next operation, while Yun Huoyue listened as Cangshan Daoist offered her advice on winning Chun Xiaobai over.
• Cangshan Daoist noticed that the Message Jade Pendant from his old friend Old Loach had lit up.

Cangshan Daoist obtained Sacred Land coordinates for Chun Xiaobai’s team, while Ye Liuli counted the vast profits from extorting more than sixty sects. Still determined to surpass Chun Xiaobai and eventually take revenge, she led her elders toward another target.

• Cangshan Daoist called an acquaintance to obtain his Sacred Land’s coordinates and gave the Jade Slip to Yun Huoyue for Bai Yutang, warning her to collect payment.
• Chun Xiaobai saw the coordinates and ordered Mu Qinglan to lead the team back to work.
• Ye Liuli and the elders counted their spoils from extorting more than sixty sects, with Ye Liuli keeping most of the six trillion spirit stones.
• Ye Liuli resolved to amass resources by targeting many smaller sects before seeking revenge on Chun Xiaobai.
• Ye Liuli assembled the elders and led them southwest to extort a newly risen first-rate sect.

Ye Liuli and the Heavenly Baleful Valley elders tried to extort the Red Glow Sect, but the sect recognized their scam and chased them away. The group escaped after exhausting their protective gear, while Lin Wanshan realized the Red Glow Sect had abandoned its heritage to flee an earlier extortion scam.

• Ye Liuli led the golden-armored troops into the Red Glow Sect and had an elder plant a demonic artifact to set up their familiar accusation.
• Elder Da Ming recognized the routine from the Purple-Gold Battle Armor bandits who had extorted the Red Glow Sect, and the sect called for backup.
• Ye Liuli ordered the group to retreat before they could name a price, and the Red Glow Sect pursued them with magical treasures and talismans.
• Ye Liuli concluded that the Red Glow Sect had already been targeted by the bandit, then ordered the elders to buy more protective gear despite rising prices.
• Lin Wanshan returned to the Red Glow Sect's hideout and spat blood when he realized they had abandoned their three-thousand-year heritage to escape an earlier scam.

After the Red Glow Sect lost its home and treasures to a scam, Lin Wanshan proposed copying the swindlers’ extortion scheme to rebuild the sect. Lin Xuanyue spared him once he saw the scheme’s profit potential, and the elders gathered to hear more.

• Lin Wanshan and the elders lamented that the sect’s relocation and earth-vein excavation had been caused by a scam.
• The Grand Supreme Elder suggested that the Red Glow Sect copy the Golden Armor Army’s extortion racket, but Lin Wanshan worried they lacked a demonic artifact.
• Lin Wanshan learned that Lin Xuanyue had destroyed the demonic artifact and slapped him in anger.
• Lin Xuanyue grabbed Lin Wanshan by the throat, but Lin Wanshan said they could copy the swindlers by targeting other sects.
• Lin Xuanyue released Lin Wanshan and warmed to the plan, while the elders gathered around to listen.

Lin Wanshan and Ancestor Xuanyue planned to use a fake golden-armored army and the Demonic Artifact to extort other sects, but first they had to recover the artifact from a latrine. After Lin Wanshan blasted it out with an explosive talisman, the Red Glow Sect retrieved it and began preparing its extortion army.

• Lin Wanshan proposed copying the golden-armored army, planting the Demonic Artifact in other sects, and demanding spirit stones.
• Ancestor Xuanyue remembered that he had thrown the Demonic Artifact into a latrine near a small mortal city and ordered Lin Wanshan to retrieve it.
• Lin Wanshan tossed a Level Four Explosive Talisman into the latrine, blasting sewage over the group and burying him beneath the elders who fell on him.
• The explosion sent the Demonic Artifact flying out of the sewage, and the Red Glow Sect members gathered around it.
• Ancestor Xuanyue and the others returned to the sect grounds with the artifact and began organizing and drilling the Fake Emperor Pavilion Extortion Army.

Lin Wanshan formed a five-thousand-strong Silver-Armored Army, while Chun Xiaobai’s group continued extorting sacred lands until the lands joined forces and surrounded them. As danger closed in, Chun Xiaobai ordered everyone to remove their armor and dig, hoping to disguise themselves as people establishing a sect.

• Lin Wanshan trained more than five thousand sect members, then ordered silver armor modeled after the Emperor Pavilion’s design.
• Ye Liuli avoided newly founded sects and replenished her group’s supplies through safer extortion deals.
• Chun Xiaobai grew frustrated as Mu Qinglan repeatedly sent scouts to verify information before their next operations.
• Li Yuanqiu warned Chun Xiaobai that allied sacred lands had surrounded the area with tens of thousands of Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered his group to strip off their armor and dig so they could pretend to be preparing a sect site.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions disguised themselves as cultivators building a sect to evade Sacred Land search parties, and spent three days constructing a convincing compound. When Mu Qinglan warned that the area was no longer safe and Chun Xiaobai decided they should quit extorting the Sacred Lands, his followers protested that they still had dozens left to target.

• Chun Xiaobai ordered the elders to disguise themselves as workers establishing a sect and keep digging whenever Sacred Land searchers came near.
• Sacred Land elders and cultivators repeatedly inspected the mountain, but Chun Xiaobai's group kept up their act and escaped suspicion.
• After three days, the group had built a convincing sect compound, and Chun Xiaobai briefly considered turning it into Black Wind Stronghold before rejecting the idea.
• Mu Qinglan warned Chun Xiaobai that the Sacred Lands were watching the area and they should move, while Chun Xiaobai worried the Emperor Pavilion might intervene.
• Chun Xiaobai announced that they should retire from extortion, but Bai Jin'er, Mu Qinglan, Xiao Zhang, Li Qingfeng, and the others urged him to continue targeting the remaining Sacred Lands.

Chun Xiaobai decided to keep extorting the Sacred Lands rather than abandon the remaining wealth, and Mu Qinglan proposed a plan to evade their pursuit. The chapter ended with an elder accidentally calling Mu Qinglan “Sect Master.”

• Bai Jin'er and the elders persuaded Chun Xiaobai that Black Wind Stronghold needed the wealth to cover its future expenses and attract Stronghold Madams.
• Chun Xiaobai agreed to continue committing crimes and seize the remaining riches.
• The elders crowded around Chun Xiaobai with marriage proposals for their female relatives, while Bai Jin'er worried about gaining many rivals.
• Mu Qinglan warned that continuing to extort the Sacred Lands was dangerous and proposed luring their pursuers to other regions before returning to the Northern Twelve Provinces.
• An elder praised Mu Qinglan as the Sect Master, then realized he had let the title slip.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions began targeting top-tier sects for spirit stones while the Sacred Lands’ Vengeance Alliance searched for them in vain. The group reached the Central Twelve Provinces and extorted more than twenty sects in one night.

• Li Qingfeng, Zhang Xuanhe, Bai Jin'er, and Xiao Zhang persuaded Chun Xiaobai to target top-tier sects and take only spirit stones.
• Cangshan Daoist failed to reach several old friends, then left Yun Huoyue to find a place to drink alone.
• The Sacred Lands’ Vengeance Alliance grew to more than a hundred thousand Spirit Transformation cultivators but could not find Chun Xiaobai’s group.
• A Sacred Land elder remembered that Cangshan Daoist had contacted him before his sect was extorted, but dismissed the possibility that the diviner was involved.
• Chun Xiaobai’s group reached the Central Twelve Provinces and extorted more than twenty top-tier sects in one night, collecting huge amounts of spirit stones.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions collected spirit stones from sects across the Central Twelve Provinces, driving many to relocate and sparking widespread panic. As sects appealed to the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance for help, Ling Tianchen decided to charge each affected sect ten billion spirit stones for an investigation.

• Mu Qinglan and her companions celebrated collecting five trillion spirit stones, while Chun Xiaobai remained dissatisfied because he wanted Rare Treasures.
• Chun Xiaobai used Image Recording Stones to expose sects’ alleged ties to Demon Cultivators, forcing a dozen or twenty sects to move and change their names.
• News of the disappearing sects spread through the Central Twelve Provinces, and frightened representatives repeatedly urged the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance to investigate.
• Ling Tianchen kept the representatives waiting while polishing his Golden Abacus, reassuring them that he was assembling personnel without starting the investigation.
• Ling Tianchen asked the Left Protector and the Right Guardian how much to charge, and they proposed ten billion spirit stones from each of more than five thousand sects.
• Ling Tianchen calculated that the investigation could bring in fifty trillion spirit stones and imagined using the wealth to advance his cultivation beyond the Sacred Lands.

Ling Tianchen delayed the sect representatives before demanding twenty billion spirit stones from each to fund a death squad, while Mu Qinglan decided to visit him and claim a share of his fortune. The representatives were left stunned by his price.

• Ling Tianchen rejected ten billion spirit stones per sect and ordered his subordinates to wait three more days before demanding twenty billion from each.
• Chun Xiaobai’s group continued visiting sects and collecting spirit stones, while Mu Qinglan recalled Ling Tianchen’s greed and the information he had provided her.
• Mu Qinglan decided to visit Ling Tianchen in three days and squeeze half of his recent earnings out of him.
• After keeping the sect representatives waiting for three days, Ling Tianchen proposed sending a death squad to investigate the uncanny entity and asked each sect to provide one hundred Grand Supreme Elders or pay instead.
• When a Sect Master asked the investigation fee, Ling Tianchen named twenty billion spirit stones, shocking the representatives.

After news that five sects had vanished, Ling Tianchen collected twenty billion in investigation funds from frightened sects and considered how to make them pay again. Mu Qinglan then led Chun Xiaobai and the Black-Armored Army into the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance, arriving outside Ling Tianchen’s hall as he tallied his money.

• A messenger reported that five sects, including the Greenwood Sect, the Red Flame Sect, and the Heavenly River Sect, had vanished, prompting sect leaders to agree to Ling Tianchen’s twenty-billion investigation fee.
• The sects raised the money within a day, and Ling Tianchen counted it while deciding he should find another way to charge them.
• Mu Qinglan told Chun Xiaobai she knew a rich man from whom they could squeeze ten trillion, and he agreed to go with her.
• Mu Qinglan assembled more than two thousand Black-Armored Army members and led them toward the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance.
• Chun Xiaobai opened the Alliance’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Array, and Mu Qinglan’s group entered and approached Ling Tianchen’s hall.
• Mu Qinglan’s group hid behind flower beds after hearing Ling Tianchen tallying accounts, and Zhang Xuanhe nervously asked whether they were really going to do it.