Recaps

Chun Xiaobai defeated Wang Shan when Wang Shan jumped off the Challenge Platform and conceded, then collected his winnings while the disciples fumed. Egged on by Fang Yuan and the crowd, Chun Xiaobai agreed to keep challenging, and Elder Fu sent several messages to arrange what came next.

• Wang Shan spat blood and conceded after Chun Xiaobai’s Fireball Talismans forced him off the Challenge Platform.
• Chun Xiaobai defended his use of trump cards, and Elder Fu announced that Chun Xiaobai had won.
• Chun Xiaobai collected Wang Shan’s Storage Bag and gloated over the valuables inside, leaving Wang Shan nearly collapsing again.
• A disciple challenged Chun Xiaobai to a fight to the death, but Chun Xiaobai refused and exchanged a knowing look with Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan and the disciples urged Chun Xiaobai to challenge again, and Chun Xiaobai agreed.
• Elder Fu sent several messages through his Communication Token after Chun Xiaobai agreed to continue.

Chun Xiaobai drew a crowd after winning two fights with talismans and faced challenges from Han Fei and Xu Wei. He tried to delay the match until he recovered, while Elder Fu recognized the scheme he had used against Lu Mang.

• News of Chun Xiaobai's consecutive victories spread, and disciples gathered to see him defeated.
• Xu Wei and Han Fei arrived, learned that Chun Xiaobai had relied on talismans, and confronted him.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and saw that Han Fei and Xu Wei possessed great wealth.
• Chun Xiaobai flattered Han Fei and Xu Wei, then asked to rest for two days before challenging them.
• Elder Fu recognized Chun Xiaobai's familiar tactic, while Chun Xiaobai refused to return the Storage Bags he had won.
• Fang Yuan urged Chun Xiaobai to take pills and accept the challenge, and Chun Xiaobai pretended to hesitate.

Chun Xiaobai drew a crowd into staking their Storage Bags on challenges, using his reputation for crooked wins to bait stronger disciples into joining. After seven prodigies arrived and demanded a fight, his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye revealed that their Storage Bags were exceptionally valuable.

• Chun Xiaobai refused to risk his five Heavenly Prodigy Ranking Storage Bags against a single challenger and dismissed the poorer disciples’ proposed stakes.
• A disciple revealed that Cheng Haoxuan and Shi Lei had both lost to Chun Xiaobai, while others accused him of winning through sneak attacks and rule-bending.
• Chun Xiaobai insisted his tactics were allowed and challenged the crowd to gather five Genius Ranking Storage Bags if they wanted him to fight.
• The disciples called in allies, and Han Fei, Xu Wei, and other arriving prodigies agreed to pool their stakes despite being ranked below fiftieth.
• The assembled disciples presented five prodigies’ Storage Bags and pressured Chun Xiaobai to accept, while he secretly assessed the seven new arrivals and saw their wealth.

Chun Xiaobai agreed to another wagered challenge, this time against Xu Wei, while setting rules that barred her from weapons and him from talismans. Elder Fu grew increasingly suspicious that Chun Xiaobai was targeting the disciples’ wealth, but he accepted the wager and sent them to the stage.

• Hou Liang persuaded Chun Xiaobai to accept a challenge with seven Storage Bags in the pot.
• Chun Xiaobai chose Xu Wei as his opponent, and she accepted.
• Chun Xiaobai brought out a stack of talismans, prompting the disciples to negotiate restrictions for the match.
• Xu Wei agreed not to use weapons or defensive magical artifacts, and Chun Xiaobai agreed not to use talismans.
• Chun Xiaobai and Han Fei’s group handed their Storage Bags to Elder Fu, who sent Chun Xiaobai and Xu Wei to the stage.

Chun Xiaobai fought Xu Wei by hurling enchanted swords and using his footwork and meridian attacks to exploit her openings. As Xu Wei’s legs went numb and a sword threatened her dantian, she used the Object-Controlling Technique to seize a sword and block it.

• Chun Xiaobai opened the fight by throwing enchanted swords at Xu Wei, forcing her to dodge while the crowd condemned his tactics.
• Xu Wei spotted a gap in Chun Xiaobai’s attacks and charged, but Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Treading Steps to evade her palm and strike the meridians in her thigh with Heaven-Rending Hand.
• Chun Xiaobai continued throwing swords while Xu Wei’s legs grew numb, then groped her other thigh when she tried to close in.
• Chun Xiaobai launched a sword toward Xu Wei’s dantian, and she used the Object-Controlling Technique to pull a nearby sword into her hand and block it.

Chun Xiaobai defeated Xu Wei after she broke their no-weapons agreement, then denied poisoning her when Elder Fu found no evidence. He collected twelve Storage Bags and celebrated his winnings with Fang Yuan.

• Xu Wei accused Chun Xiaobai of poisoning her with Muscle-Softening Powder after he called out her use of a weapon.
• Elder Fu examined Xu Wei and found no poison or meridian damage, then declared Chun Xiaobai the winner.
• Xu Wei protested the result, but Elder Fu told her to seek another examination at the Medicine Affairs Hall if she disagreed.
• Elder Fu awarded Chun Xiaobai twelve Storage Bags, and Chun Xiaobai asked whether the resources would carry him to Foundation Establishment.
• Chun Xiaobai brought the Storage Bags to Fang Yuan and celebrated how easily he had won resources from the genius ranking.

Chun Xiaobai left the Black Tortoise Arena after demanding that future challengers gather twelve Storage Bags, while the disciples looked to Li Kuang to defeat him. Back at the Cave Abode, he shared some of his winnings with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er, then began looking for more wealthy targets.

• Chun Xiaobai accepted future challenges only if his opponents gathered twelve Storage Bags, then left the arena with Fang Yuan.
• The disciples anticipated Li Kuang's return and hoped the ranked fighter would defeat Chun Xiaobai.
• Elder Fu recognized that Chun Xiaobai was concealing his abilities and deliberately luring challengers into losing their wealth.
• Chun Xiaobai brought twelve Storage Bags to the Cave Abode and gave one each to Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er.
• Chun Xiaobai sent Bai Jin'er to fetch food and wine and ordered Fang Yuan to identify wealthy disciples among the top thirty-nine on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking.

After defeating several Heavenly Prodigy Ranking disciples and taking their Storage Bags, Chun Xiaobai became the target of Outer Sect rumors, resentment, and greed. He sorted his spoils and refined fifty thousand spirit stones, but remained just short of advancing to the fifth level of blood refining.

• Chun Xiaobai gathered the remaining Storage Bags and gleefully dumped their contents in his cultivation room.
• Disciples spread rumors that Chun Xiaobai had won through poison and underhanded tricks, and a Punitive League petitioned the Sect's higher-ups to punish him.
• The Sect's higher-ups dismissed the petition, while disciples and low-ranking Inner Sect members began plotting to rob Chun Xiaobai of his twelve Storage Bags.
• Chun Xiaobai sorted his spoils, found more than three hundred bottles of pills and over thirty spirit herbs, and complained that the disciples had carried only about fifty thousand spirit stones in total.
• Chun Xiaobai pulverized the fifty thousand spirit stones and used the Martial God Art to refine their essence, but his cultivation rose only to just short of the fifth level.
• Chun Xiaobai noticed the third chief had not returned with the food and wine, then decided to use his momentum to attempt a breakthrough.

After consuming ten spirit herbs, Chun Xiaobai broke through to the mid Blood Refinement stage and returned to find Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er bound outside his Cave Abode. He confronted Liu Changqing, who had organized the crowd, and left the chapter holding him by the neck as the surrounding disciples prepared to intervene.

• Chun Xiaobai refined ten spirit herbs, broke through to the mid Blood Refinement stage, and marveled at his strength and recovery.
• Chun Xiaobai left his Cave Abode to look for Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er after they failed to return.
• Chun Xiaobai found Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er tied up and hanging from a tree outside his courtyard, surrounded by angry disciples.
• Liu Changqing stepped forward and admitted that he had tied them up, prompting Chun Xiaobai to seize him by the neck.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er urged Chun Xiaobai to stop, while the surrounding disciples gathered spiritual power, ready to rush in.

Chun Xiaobai rescued Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er by repeatedly breaking and restoring Liu Changqing’s bones, terrifying Liu Changqing’s disciples into surrendering. The disciples freed Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan thanked Chun Xiaobai.

• Chun Xiaobai broke Liu Changqing’s bones with his Rending People technique, leaving him limp on the ground.
• Chun Xiaobai restored Liu Changqing’s bones, then immediately dismantled him again when Liu Changqing tried to speak.
• Chun Xiaobai frightened Liu Changqing’s disciples into backing down and demanded they release Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er.
• The disciples untied Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er and lowered them from the tree.
• Fang Yuan tore off his ropes, limped to Chun Xiaobai, and thanked him for saving his life.

Chun Xiaobai forced Liu Changqing and his lackeys to hand over their Storage Bags, then challenged Captain Li when the Disciplinary Enforcement Team arrived to arrest him. The witnesses confirmed that Chun Xiaobai had dismantled Liu Changqing’s bones, leaving Captain Li ready to act against him.

• Chun Xiaobai stopped Liu Changqing’s lackeys from fleeing and made them apologize by handing over their Storage Bags to Fang Yuan.
• Chun Xiaobai reassembled Liu Changqing’s bones and intimidated him into surrendering his own Storage Bag to Fang Yuan.
• Captain Li arrived with the Disciplinary Enforcement Team and ordered Chun Xiaobai seized after Liu Changqing accused him of attacking the group and robbing them.
• Chun Xiaobai questioned Captain Li’s evidence and mocked the accusation, but Liu Changqing and several disciples testified that he had dismantled Liu Changqing’s bones twice.
• Captain Li asked Chun Xiaobai what excuse he had left after hearing the witnesses.

Chun Xiaobai challenged the Disciplinary Enforcement Team’s accusations after they found Liu Changqing uninjured, but Captain Li then ordered him arrested over a poisoning report. Chun Xiaobai attacked and dismantled Captain Li, leaving Liu Changqing fearing the consequences if he escaped.

• Chun Xiaobai argued that Liu Changqing showed no injuries, and Captain Li conceded that the assault charge lacked evidence.
• Captain Li accused Chun Xiaobai of secretly poisoning a fellow disciple and ordered the team to take him to the Disciplinary Hall.
• Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Treading Steps to reach Captain Li and shattered his bones, dropping him into a boneless heap.
• Liu Changqing realized he had provoked a dangerous bandit and feared Chun Xiaobai would take revenge if he escaped.

Chun Xiaobai beat Captain Li, tried to flee with his spoils, and was confronted by Hall Master Zhang, who ordered him to the Disciplinary Hall. Facing Hall Master Zhang’s overwhelming strength, Chun Xiaobai claimed he was having an affair with Yun Huoyue, leaving Zhang and the watching disciples stunned.

• Chun Xiaobai kicked Captain Li into the Disciplinary Enforcement Team and returned to his Cave Abode to pack his spoils.
• Chun Xiaobai found Hall Master Zhang examining Captain Li and admitted he had done it, while insisting it was self-defense.
• Hall Master Zhang ordered Chun Xiaobai to come to the Disciplinary Hall, and Chun Xiaobai drew his Large Ringed Saber to resist.
• Hall Master Zhang disarmed Chun Xiaobai with a wave of his hand and prepared to seize him.
• Chun Xiaobai shouted that he was having an affair with Yun Huoyue, causing Hall Master Zhang to stop and the crowd to stare in shock.

Chun Xiaobai bluffed Hall Master Zhang into fleeing by claiming Peak Master Yun would protect him, then shamelessly pretended Bai Jin'er was the woman he had spent the night with. Yun Huoyue arrived and examined Captain Li, discovering Chun Xiaobai’s astonishingly precise technique and wondering whether he might be the person she had been waiting for.

• Chun Xiaobai claimed Yun Huoyue would skin anyone who bullied him, frightening Hall Master Zhang into abandoning Captain Li and fleeing.
• Chun Xiaobai noticed Yun Huoyue standing behind him after the crowd fell silent.
• Chun Xiaobai grabbed Bai Jin'er’s hands and called her “little Yunyun,” then pretended he had only just noticed Yun Huoyue.
• Yun Huoyue ignored Chun Xiaobai and examined Captain Li, whose bones and meridians had been displaced without any damage to his skin or flesh.
• Yun Huoyue recognized the precision of Chun Xiaobai’s technique and wondered whether his exceptional divine soul meant he was the person she had been waiting for.

After Yun Huoyue drove away the other disciples with a warning that protected Green Bamboo Peak, Chun Xiaobai frightened off Liu Changqing and rejected the people trying to curry favor with him. He returned to his Cave Abode with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er, then worried that his exposed bone-dismantling skills had ruined his plan to secretly grow stronger and profit from the ranking big shots.

• Yun Huoyue warned disciples from other peaks to stay off Green Bamboo Peak and left, making the gathered disciples suspect Chun Xiaobai was having a fling with her.
• Liu Changqing fell to his knees and apologized to Chun Xiaobai, who ordered him and his followers to scram.
• Chun Xiaobai confronted the remaining spectators and sent Zhang Yan away when she tried to get close to him.
• Chun Xiaobai entered his Cave Abode with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan praised him for winning over a Peak Master.
• Chun Xiaobai returned to the Cultivation Room and lamented that people on the rankings would now be wary of him.

After Liu Changqing exposed Chun Xiaobai’s bone-dismantling craft, Chun Xiaobai learned the Heaven-Sealing Finger and prepared for a nighttime job to recover his losses. Dressed in a garment sewn by Bai Jin'er, he slipped out alone and spotted Disciplinary Disciples drinking on patrol.

• Chun Xiaobai entered the Divine Altar and learned the three-strike Heaven-Sealing Finger before being forced out when his time ran out.
• After recovering with spirit herbs and a day of rest, Chun Xiaobai asked Bai Jin'er to alter black robes into a close-fitting Night-Walking Garment.
• Bai Jin'er finished sewing the garment in less than an hour, and Chun Xiaobai praised her work and gave her and Fang Yuan rooms in his Cave Abode.
• On a dark, cloudy night, Chun Xiaobai put on the Night-Walking Garment and his old black hood, then slipped out of the courtyard alone.
• Chun Xiaobai swept the area with his divine sense and spotted several Disciplinary Disciples drinking at a bend in the mountain path.

Chun Xiaobai sneaked onto Cinnabar Glow Peak to rob wealthy disciples and discovered a secret trade in forbidden pills. The chapter ended with a buyer revealing that he planned to drug Bai Jin'er of Green Bamboo Peak.

• Chun Xiaobai sneaked past the mountain gate and climbed to the summit of Cinnabar Glow Peak, avoiding its poorer residents.
• Chun Xiaobai knocked out two Cinnabar Glow Peak disciples and stole their Storage Bags.
• Chun Xiaobai spotted a wealthy disciple surnamed Xu, but hid when the man challenged someone in the darkness.
• A scrawny disciple approached Senior Brother Xu and bought ten Bone-Eroding Soul-Draining Pills with spirit stones.
• The scrawny disciple revealed that Bai Jin'er of Green Bamboo Peak was his target, and Senior Brother Xu frowned.

Chun Xiaobai ambushed disciples on Green Bamboo Peak with the Heaven-Sealing Finger and robbed them of their Storage Bags. By dawn, he had captured thirty disciples and was sneaking down the mountain, where he found the entrance guards missing again.

• Senior Brother Xu bought pills from a scrawny disciple, but Chun Xiaobai knocked them both down and froze Senior Brother Xu before he could activate a communication talisman.
• Chun Xiaobai took both men’s Storage Bags and beat the scrawny disciple after learning that Bai Jin'er’s protector was away.
• Chun Xiaobai used the Heaven-Sealing Finger to immobilize lone disciples and rob them as they passed beneath his tree.
• Overnight, Chun Xiaobai amassed thirty captured disciples and Storage Bags before sneaking down Green Bamboo Peak at dawn.
• At the foot of the peak, Chun Xiaobai found that the illicit lovebirds who guarded the entrance had disappeared again.

Dan Chenzi and Lei Xiao examined thirty Cinnabar Glow Peak disciples who had been robbed and sealed in place, but neither could break the strange array. The chapter left the disciples still trapped as both experts failed to release them.

• Chun Xiaobai swaggered up the mountain after abandoning his attempt to hide.
• Dan Chenzi examined the thirty motionless disciples and realized they had been sealed from the inside out rather than struck by an Immobility Spell.
• Lei Xiao arrived with Disciplinary Disciples and discovered the victims had been robbed and their bodies locked in absolute stillness.
• Dan Chenzi used Spirit-Severing Finger on one disciple, but the seal remained in place.
• Lei Xiao tried Spirit-Severing Finger himself, but the disciple remained motionless.

Dan Chenzi, Lei Xiao, and Chen Xuan investigated a strange self-contained Sealing Formation that had immobilized several disciples, but their experiments accidentally killed two of them. The Peak Masters suspected Heavenly Baleful Valley was responsible and wondered whether its infamous sealing arts had struck again.

• Dan Chenzi and Lei Xiao tried numerous methods to free the immobilized disciples and discovered that the Sealing Formation operated without outside spiritual qi.
• Lei Xiao summoned Chen Xuan, who examined the formation and found it branded directly into the disciples’ meridians.
• More than a dozen Peak Masters arrived and investigated the sealed disciples, injuring them as they tested the formation.
• An onlooker noticed Senior Brother Li had stopped breathing, and the Peak Masters realized they had poked two disciples to death.
• Dan Chenzi ordered the disciples moved to Cinnabar Glow Peak, and the Peak Masters suspected Heavenly Baleful Valley was behind the formation.

Chun Xiaobai’s raid on Cinnabar Glow Peak prompted an Outer Sect lockdown, but he still planned another robbery. Fang Yuan chose to stand by his benefactor and praised him as a king worthy of the name.

• Dan Chenzi realized the immobilized Cinnabar Glow Peak disciples were a deliberate provocation by Heavenly Baleful Valley.
• Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan learned that a Bandit Cultivator had robbed thirty disciples on Cinnabar Glow Peak, and Bai Jin'er suspected Chun Xiaobai was responsible.
• Chun Xiaobai admitted he had robbed thirty disciples and offered to share his windfall with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er.
• Fang Yuan warned Chun Xiaobai that the Outer Sect had been locked down and that the raid might have stirred powerful elders.
• Chun Xiaobai regretted that he could not easily rob again that night, but Fang Yuan praised his audacity and decided to remain at his side.

Chun Xiaobai rewarded Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er with stolen treasure, then returned to his Cultivation Room to sort through the loot and consider fleeing the Sect before his forged identity was exposed. He decided he had to use up the stolen goods before making his escape.

• Chun Xiaobai gave Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er piles of treasure, and both accepted them despite Bai Jin'er's guilt.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to keep watch outside, and Bai Jin'er called him “Your Majesty.”
• Chun Xiaobai judged Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to be promising recruits for his future stronghold because of their flaws, greed, and courage.
• Chun Xiaobai examined the stolen spirit stones, pills, and magical artifacts, finding the artifacts and pills disappointingly low quality.
• Chun Xiaobai wondered why the Sect's Peak Masters and elders had been alerted, concluded he might need to flee, and decided to use up the stolen loot first.

Chun Xiaobai used his stolen riches to raise his cultivation, consuming Spirit Stones, pills, and Spirit Herbs in pursuit of the blood refining sixth layer. After swallowing all his pills without apparent harm, he suspected he had an immunity to poison and began eating the Spirit Herbs.

• Chun Xiaobai dumped out his accumulated loot, sorted it, and kept the Spirit Stones, pills, and Spirit Herbs for himself.
• Chun Xiaobai shattered sixty thousand Spirit Stones and absorbed their Spiritual Qi, but his cultivation remained at the blood refining fifth layer.
• Chun Xiaobai ate all six hundred bottles of pills, more than doubled his strength, and barely reached the threshold of the blood refining sixth layer.
• Chun Xiaobai worried the pills might have poisoned him, then concluded his constitution might make him immune to poison because he felt fine.
• Chun Xiaobai opened the Jade Boxes and began eating the thirty Spirit Herbs raw.

After consuming all twenty remaining spirit herbs, Chun Xiaobai opened a divine treasury and gained strength powerful enough to overwhelm Foundation Establishment cultivators. He took Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er out of the Azure Cloud Sect’s service and prepared to lead them down the mountain to make a fortune.

• Chun Xiaobai swallowed twenty spirit herbs, endured a painful transformation, and opened a divine treasury.
• Chun Xiaobai accidentally injured Fang Yuan by slapping his shoulder and apologized after Bai Jin'er warned that interrupting cultivation could cause qi deviation.
• Chun Xiaobai announced that he would take Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er down the mountain to strike it rich.
• Chun Xiaobai told Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to leave the Azure Cloud Sect and follow him, despite the Sect's rules against leaving.
• Fang Yuan agreed to leave the Sect, and Bai Jin'er reluctantly agreed as well, wondering if Chun Xiaobai's generosity had swayed her.

Chun Xiaobai learned that Green Bamboo Peak had been conscripted to attend the Demon-Slaying Assembly and grew interested in its rewards. He realized the demon accused of robbing Cinnabar Glow Peak was probably himself.

• Chun Xiaobai, Fang Yuan, and Bai Jin'er left the Cave Abode and found disciples gathered around a Conscription Order at Green Bamboo Peak.
• Fang Yuan explained that the Sect issued compulsory assignments each year, and Chun Xiaobai seized the order after hearing that demons could carry large bounties.
• Chun Xiaobai read that Green Bamboo Peak had to send ten disciples with Elder Sun to the Demon-Slaying Assembly and asked what the assembly was.
• Fang Yuan explained that the Demon-Slaying Alliance rewarded demon kills, but that righteous Sects sometimes accused hostile factions of colluding with demons to justify attacking them.
• The disciples said the first-place prize had been raised to an Earth Tier Magical Artifact, a hundred thousand spirit stones, and a Foundation Establishment Pill after a demon robbed disciples from Cinnabar Glow Peak.
• Chun Xiaobai realized the demon accused of the robbery was likely himself.