Recaps

Chun Xiaobai ambushed and captured several Core Disciples, including Lu Yunfei, then brought them and their Storage Rings back to his cave. He learned that he could not open the rings without removing their divine sense imprints, leaving him frustrated over how to access the wealth inside.

• Chun Xiaobai followed a fleeing Core Disciple and caught three Core Disciples by disabling their War Puppets, including Lu Yunfei.
• Chun Xiaobai captured Lu Yunfei and the other disciples, then gathered three more wounded Core Disciples and five War Puppets along the way back to his cave.
• Chun Xiaobai accepted seventeen Storage Rings from Bai Jin'er but found he could not open them because they carried their owners' divine sense imprints.
• Bai Jin'er explained that a secret technique could remove an imprint only if Chun Xiaobai cultivated one major realm above its owner.
• Fang Yuan explained that Storage Rings could not be forced open without destroying their contents, leaving Chun Xiaobai lamenting that he could not access the loot.

Chun Xiaobai used the Heaven-Rending Hand to erase divine sense imprints from Storage Rings and shared several with Fang Yuan, Xiao Zhang, and Bai Jin'er. After they looted the hostages, Fang Yuan showed him valuable armor and robes taken from Lu Yunfei.

• Chun Xiaobai realized his Heaven-Rending Hand could sense and dismantle the formations protecting Storage Ring imprints, then erased an imprint and injured its owner through backlash.
• Chun Xiaobai discovered the ring held abundant pills, magical artifacts, talismans, spirit herbs, and over two hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai erased the imprints on three more rings and gave them to Fang Yuan, Xiao Zhang, and Bai Jin'er, who were astonished and grateful.
• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang searched the hostages and collected Mystic Tier armor, thirteen Storage Bags, and enchanted robes.
• Fang Yuan presented the armor and robes taken from Lu Yunfei, and Chun Xiaobai asked what they were.

Chun Xiaobai claimed a valuable enchanted robe for himself and gave Bai Jin'er the Golden Cicada Armor before the group began recording ransom messages from their captives. When Lu Yunfei revealed that his father was the Divine Firmament Sect’s Sect Master, Chun Xiaobai and the others realized they had captured a far more valuable hostage than they expected.

• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang explained the enchanted robe’s value, and Chun Xiaobai erased its imprint and changed it into a Night-Walking Garment.
• Chun Xiaobai judged the Golden Cicada Armor unnecessary for himself and gave it to Bai Jin'er as a reward.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang to record ransom messages from the thirty Righteous Alliance captives while Bai Jin'er kept watch.
• Lu Yunfei begged the kidnappers for mercy and offered to fetch a high ransom from his wealthy father.
• Lu Yunfei revealed that his father was the Divine Firmament Sect’s Sect Master, leaving Chun Xiaobai and the others stunned by their fortune.

Chun Xiaobai secured a ransom and blackmail recording from Lu Yunfei, then returned to the battlefield to hunt for valuable disciples. After finding mostly hidden or low-ranking targets, he decided to pursue the ten most influential names on his list.

• Chun Xiaobai had Lu Yunfei record his father's secrets and demand a ransom, and Lu Yunfei added a Heaven-Tier Magical Treasure to the list.
• Chun Xiaobai made Lu Yunfei record a second version with several treasures removed, keeping both recordings as ransom and blackmail evidence.
• Bai Jin'er told Chun Xiaobai to be careful, but he mistook her concern for a fever and left the cave.
• Chun Xiaobai searched the battlefield, found hidden disciples inside War Puppets, and robbed them, but encountered no valuable Core Disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai studied Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang's list and chose to target its ten most influential disciples.

Chun Xiaobai infiltrated the Primordial Forest, where the Core Disciples of the Righteous Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley were fighting, to capture high-value targets without revealing his identity. He seized Gu Shuangshuang and, after finding four more targets weakened by battle, sealed them as well.

• Chun Xiaobai learned that the Core Disciples had gathered for a showdown in the Primordial Forest and headed there in disguise.
• Chun Xiaobai avoided confronting a righteous disciple fighting three Heavenly Baleful Valley disciples after checking that none matched his target portraits.
• Gu Shuangshuang ambushed Chun Xiaobai, but he sealed her, slapped her, and hid her in a ditch.
• Chun Xiaobai escaped attacks from other Core Disciples and continued searching for the targets on his list.
• Chun Xiaobai waited until four targets were badly wounded and exhausted, then rushed in and sealed all four.

Chun Xiaobai encountered Ye Liuli, captain of the Heavenly Baleful Valley alliance, and fought her after she mistook him for an enemy. He defeated her and left her unable to use spiritual power, with Ye Liuli vowing to die rather than submit.

• Chun Xiaobai hid five captured targets in a secluded cave before Ye Liuli shouted at him to help.
• Ye Liuli attacked Chun Xiaobai with her spear, but he dodged her strikes and revealed strength that shocked her.
• Chun Xiaobai unleashed Sky-Piercing Flying Dragon, breaking through Ye Liuli's spear-shadow attack and hurling her into the trees.
• Chun Xiaobai grabbed Ye Liuli after she fell and found she could no longer muster spiritual power.
• Ye Liuli called Chun Xiaobai a shameless degenerate and declared she would die before letting him have his way.

Chun Xiaobai captured Ye Liuli and Qin Ruoxue, then brought them and his other hostages back to his hideout beneath the Cliff. His followers discovered the two famous women among the captives, while Bai Jin'er felt uneasy about their arrival.

• Ye Liuli tried to kill herself, but Chun Xiaobai immobilized her and took her Mystic Tier magical Phoenix Hairpin.
• Chun Xiaobai encountered the injured Qin Ruoxue, who demanded that he release Ye Liuli, and he captured her with a trick.
• Chun Xiaobai loaded Ye Liuli, Qin Ruoxue, and his earlier hostages into a War Puppet and traveled back to the Cliff.
• Fang Yuan welcomed Chun Xiaobai and was shocked to find Ye Liuli and Qin Ruoxue among the eleven captives.
• Bai Jin'er carried Ye Liuli and Qin Ruoxue out of the cockpit as Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang directed the other captives into the cave.

Chun Xiaobai gathered more than a thousand hostages and planned to use their recordings to pressure the sects, while the Hundred Sects Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley elders reacted to humiliating battle reports. The chapter ended with a Righteous Alliance elder watching a new recording and spitting blood in outrage.

• Chun Xiaobai had Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang retrieve more than a thousand hostages, then ordered them to arrange for image-recording talismans to be delivered by hired messengers.
• The Hundred Sects Alliance elders read reports of their disciples’ defeats and humiliations, while one elder collapsed from rage.
• Zheng Tianyuan dismissed reports that fifteen Heavenly Baleful Valley disciples were missing, then watched a recording showing Li Cheng begging for mercy and demanding ransom.
• Zheng Tianyuan crushed the Image Recording Stone before Li Cheng’s master could see it, leaving the old man convinced that his disciple had been framed.
• Righteous Alliance disciples brought an Image Recording Stone asking for help from Senior Brother Wang, and the elder who watched it spat blood and denounced Heavenly Baleful Valley.

Chun Xiaobai’s ransom scheme failed when the Righteous Alliance refused to pay for Wang Sheng, so he sent new recordings threatening to expose sect secrets unless the factions paid. The Righteous Alliance chose to abandon its captured disciples, while the Heavenly Baleful Valley erupted in fury over similar threats against its own inner disciples.

• Envoy Zhang and the Righteous Alliance elders watched Wang Sheng’s recording and decided to leave him rather than pay his ransom.
• Chun Xiaobai realized the factions would not pay and ordered Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang to record new ransom demands with the captured inner disciples.
• The new recordings threatened to expose spiritual mines, outposts, and secret stashes unless the factions paid.
• Envoy Zhang persuaded the Righteous Alliance elders to abandon their 860 captured disciples, citing the enormous cost and the danger of setting a precedent.
• The Heavenly Baleful Valley elders saw recordings of over 200 inner disciples threatening to reveal the sect’s strongholds and spiritual mines, and denounced the Righteous Alliance as bandits.

Chun Xiaobai sent recordings of abducted Core Disciples demanding ransom, forcing the Righteous Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley to weigh enormous payments against losing their talented disciples. Both sides struggled to decide what to do as the one-day deadline loomed.

• Zheng Tianyuan and the Heavenly Baleful Valley elders decided to refuse the earlier ransom demand and publicize the Righteous Alliance’s actions.
• After waiting four hours without a reply, Chun Xiaobai had Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang record thirty Core Disciples begging for ransom and threatening to defect, then sent the recordings to both factions.
• The Righteous Alliance elders grew furious over the demand for one million spirit stones per Core Disciple, while Envoy Zhang stopped them from breaking the peace agreement.
• Zheng Tianyuan hesitated to pay ten million spirit stones for Heavenly Baleful Valley’s ten captives after elders warned they could defect with the sect’s War Puppet technology.
• The Righteous Alliance concluded it had little choice but to pay, but could not gather twenty million spirit stones before the one-day deadline.

Chun Xiaobai negotiated ransoms for the captured Core Disciples by adding more free Inner Sect disciples to make the million-Spirit-Stone price feel like a bargain. The Righteous Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley remained reluctant to pay and kept haggling, leaving negotiations ongoing.

• Envoy Zhang and the elders considered fighting to the death until Chun Xiaobai offered ten free Inner Sect disciples with each million-Spirit-Stone ransom.
• The Righteous Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley recognized that Chun Xiaobai wanted money and countered with a limit of fifty thousand Spirit Stones per Core Disciple.
• Chun Xiaobai raised the offer to thirty free Inner Sect disciples for the Righteous Alliance and twenty for Heavenly Baleful Valley, while keeping the ransom at a million per Core Disciple.
• Zheng Tianyuan and Envoy Zhang balked at the total cost and ordered their elders to keep haggling.
• Chun Xiaobai added another ten free Inner Sect disciples per Core Disciple, prompting both sides to feel they had secured a better deal despite still facing huge bills.
• The elders sent another counteroffer, and the negotiations continued.

Chun Xiaobai negotiated the release of the kidnapped disciples for three million spirit stones, then shared a million with Fang Yuan, Xiao Zhang, and Bai Jin'er. The prisoners were to be left at a designated location for their sects to collect.

• Chun Xiaobai offered to release each Core Disciple for one hundred thousand spirit stones and include thirty-five inner disciples for free, and both sects accepted after initially celebrating the bargain.
• Envoy Zhang reluctantly agreed to pay, while Heavenly Baleful Valley prepared its payment until an elder raised concerns about the hostages’ safety.
• Chun Xiaobai and the two camps swore vicious oaths upon the Heavenly Dao, including promises not to kidnap the disciples again.
• Chun Xiaobai received three million spirit stones and gave a ring containing one million to Fang Yuan, Xiao Zhang, and Bai Jin'er to split.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered the captives taken to a designated location so their people could collect them.

Chun Xiaobai's group delivered the kidnapped disciples to their sects, then held several wealthy heirs for ransom and forced them to submit. Chun Xiaobai entered a neighboring Cave Abode with Bai Jin'er and found Qin Ruoxue, Gu Shuangshuang, and Ye Liuli there.

• Chun Xiaobai sent the thousand-plus Inner Sect disciples and Core Disciples back to concealed locations, and their elders retrieved and punished them.
• Zheng Tianyuan realized Ye Liuli had been missing for two days, while the Mystic Ice Palace elders also noticed they had heard nothing from Qin Ruoxue, so the sects sent disciples to search.
• Chun Xiaobai and Fang Yuan questioned the captured heirs about their families, and Fang Yuan recorded their backgrounds to set their ransoms.
• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang beat the heirs when they resisted, and Chun Xiaobai threatened to take their limbs until they obediently accepted his terms.
• Chun Xiaobai took Bai Jin'er into the neighboring Cave Abode and found Qin Ruoxue, Gu Shuangshuang, and Ye Liuli inside.

Chun Xiaobai and Bai Jin'er stripped and intimidated the kidnapped Gu Shuangshuang, then forced her to record a plea-for-help video so they could extort her mother. After immobilizing Gu Shuangshuang again, Chun Xiaobai turned his attention to Qin Ruoxue and Ye Liuli.

• Chun Xiaobai ordered Bai Jin'er to strip the three captive women and prepare Image Recording Talismans.
• Bai Jin'er stripped the women, then slapped Gu Shuangshuang when she regained consciousness and looked around.
• Gu Shuangshuang recognized that bandits had kidnapped her and screamed when she realized she was nearly naked.
• Chun Xiaobai threatened to spread a recording of Gu Shuangshuang's seductive dance unless she asked her mother for money.
• Gu Shuangshuang recorded a plea-for-help video, and Chun Xiaobai immobilized her before turning to Qin Ruoxue and Ye Liuli.

Chun Xiaobai and Bai Jin'er forced Ye Liuli to record a ransom demand, then released Qin Ruoxue, whose divine soul attacks unexpectedly strengthened Chun Xiaobai's divine sense. The chapter left Qin Ruoxue facing Chun Xiaobai as he mistook her attack for a fortuitous opportunity.

• Chun Xiaobai released Ye Liuli's seal, and she immediately attacked him before realizing her spiritual power was sealed.
• Ye Liuli accused Chun Xiaobai of being a lecher, then agreed to record a list of treasures and spirit stones for ransom.
• Chun Xiaobai resealed Ye Liuli and released Qin Ruoxue, whose divine soul attack knocked Bai Jin'er unconscious.
• Qin Ruoxue sent a transparent sword of divine sense through Chun Xiaobai's brow, increasing his divine sense range from thirty li to thirty-two li.
• Chun Xiaobai mistook Qin Ruoxue's attack for a fortuitous opportunity, while she suspected he was hiding an injury.

Chun Xiaobai discovered that Qin Ruoxue’s divine soul attack strengthened his divine sense, while Qin mistook his resistance for proof that he came from the Sacred Land. After he seized her and threatened to use an Image Recording Stone of their encounter, Qin panicked, leaving Chun Xiaobai with leverage over her.

• Qin Ruoxue’s God-Slaying Thorn failed to harm Chun Xiaobai and instead increased his divine sense, leading her to suspect he was from the Sacred Land.
• Chun Xiaobai ignored Qin Ruoxue’s warnings, seized her, and slapped her when she threatened to report him.
• Chun Xiaobai learned that Qin Ruoxue’s Soul-Suppressing Guide had sealed Bai Jin’er’s divine soul and demanded Qin’s divine soul attack manual.
• Qin Ruoxue refused to surrender the manual, so Chun Xiaobai retrieved Bai Jin’er’s Image Recording Stone and watched the footage of him slapping Qin.
• Qin Ruoxue recognized the Image Recording Stone and demanded it back, while Chun Xiaobai realized she feared the recording would damage her reputation.

Chun Xiaobai forced Qin Ruoxue to read out a ransom demand, freed Bai Jin'er from a seal, and sent Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang to carry out a plan to secure payment. Outside the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits, the sect leaders realized their missing heirs and invited reinforcements might have fallen into the Heavenly Baleful Valley's hands.

• Chun Xiaobai threatened to circulate an Image Recording Stone unless Qin Ruoxue read his ransom list aloud and told her Sect Master to bring the payment.
• Qin Ruoxue read the list, and Chun Xiaobai immobilized her without returning her clothes.
• Chun Xiaobai used the Heaven-Rending Hand to break Bai Jin'er's seal and wake her.
• Chun Xiaobai discussed a plan with Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang, who left with batches of pleas for help from the captured heirs.
• The Sect Masters and elders searching the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits found that several heirs and invited reinforcements, including Gu Shuangshuang and Qin Ruoxue, were missing and feared they had fallen into the Heavenly Baleful Valley's hands.

Envoy Zhang and the Heavenly Baleful Valley elders feared that missing disciples had been abducted during the trial, risking a conflict with powerful sects. The elders received recordings proving Ye Liuli and two others had been captured alive, but the culprit remained unknown.

• Envoy Zhang resisted notifying the Ancient Moon Sect and Mystic Ice Palace, expecting the kidnappers to make contact before the trial ended.
• The Heavenly Baleful Valley elders discovered that Ye Liuli and two other disciples were missing from the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits.
• Grand Elder Zheng Tianyuan rejected the idea that Ye Liuli had been captured, then grew suspicious that the Hundred Sects Alliance elders might have seized her themselves.
• A disciple delivered three Image Recording Stones showing bruised disciples and Ye Liuli, prompting the elders to realize the missing disciples had been captured alive.
• The elders demanded to know who had captured the disciples, and one speculated that the Hundred Sects Alliance was responsible.

The Hundred Sects Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley panicked over kidnapped heirs, including Qin Ruoxue, but the kidnappers made no demands. Chun Xiaobai chose to keep both groups waiting so he could pressure them into paying more.

• The Grand Elder feared Ye Liuli's kidnappers might make no demands, leaving the Heavenly Baleful Valley unable to bargain or respond.
• Envoy Zhang learned that Qin Ruoxue was among the captives and restrained the Hundred Sects Alliance from acting while they waited for the kidnappers to contact them.
• Lu Qingshan argued that the Heavenly Baleful Valley was unlikely to be responsible, but Envoy Zhang refused to risk provoking the kidnappers and ordered the alliance to keep searching the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits.
• Chun Xiaobai read Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang's report about the factions' anxiety and decided to prolong the wait to make the heirs' families pay more.
• Fang Yuan asked whether they should send the factions the list, but Chun Xiaobai refused.

Chun Xiaobai sent edited Image Recording Stones to the elders outside the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits, using the hostages’ apparent mistreatment to confuse and intimidate them. The Heavenly Baleful Valley and the Hundred Sects Alliance both mistook the recordings for threats meant to silence them, leaving their elders furious and confused.

• Chun Xiaobai warned Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang not to view the Image Recording Stones and told them to make sure only women opened them.
• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang sent the recordings through their arranged channels to the elders outside the mountain.
• A female elder viewed Ye Liuli’s recording and saw her clothing being removed, prompting Zheng Tianyuan to smash the Flying Boat’s railing in rage.
• Zheng Tianyuan concluded that the kidnappers were threatening the Heavenly Baleful Valley into silence, and the elders cursed the Hundred Sects Alliance.
• Envoy Zhang led the Hundred Sects Alliance to the same conclusion, while injured disciples aboard the Flying Boat wondered why the elders were shouting.

Envoy Zhang ordered the Alliance to investigate the messengers, while Chun Xiaobai used the elders’ suspicions to advance his larger scheme. He sent new demands for the kidnapped disciples, leaving both sides furious at the staggering ransom.

• Envoy Zhang told his Managers to secretly follow whoever delivered the Image Recording Stones and uncover their origins.
• Chun Xiaobai learned the elders were tracking the messengers and welcomed their suspicions as a chance to steer blame toward the Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley.
• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang worried that the elders might retaliate, but Chun Xiaobai sent them out with two new Image Recording Stones.
• Envoy Zhang and Zheng Tianyuan received the new demands for one hundred Heaven-Tier Magical Artifacts and ten million Upper-Grade Spirit Stones per person, then both groups erupted in curses.

After an enormous ransom demand left both factions guessing about the kidnappers’ identities, Chun Xiaobai learned that the elders were holding their positions and ordered his group to prepare to collect the money.

• The disciples heard rumors of a great opportunity in the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits and rushed toward its center.
• The Heavenly Baleful Valley elders argued over Ye Liuli’s kidnapping and the ransom before realizing they could haggle.
• The elders aboard the Thousand Sects Alliance’s Flying Boat debated the ransom and wondered where to deliver the money.
• Envoy Zhang suspected an elaborate scheme meant to make the two factions blame each other, but the Alliance elders concluded the Heavenly Baleful Valley was responsible.
• The Heavenly Baleful Valley elders likewise suspected the Thousand Sects Alliance and considered Envoy Zhang a possible mastermind.
• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang reported the elders’ suspicions and stalemate to Chun Xiaobai, who ordered his brothers to prepare to collect the money.

Chun Xiaobai’s gang prepared to collect ransom by exploiting the Heavenly Baleful Valley and Hundred Sects Alliance’s mutual suspicions. After Bai Jin'er interpreted his scheme as deliberate misdirection, Chun Xiaobai sent the rival groups a brutal ransom demand and dispatched Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang with the recordings.

• Bai Jin'er explained that Chun Xiaobai had angered both sides until each blamed the other, convincing Chun Xiaobai and his men that they could safely collect the ransom.
• Chun Xiaobai praised Bai Jin'er, then filmed a ransom demand for magical artifacts, spirit stones, elixirs, talismans, and herbs, threatening to kill the hostages if the deadline passed.
• Chun Xiaobai had Xiao Zhang make a corpse explode during a second recording to make the threat look convincing, frightening Bai Jin'er.
• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang hesitated to deliver the recordings, but Bai Jin'er urged them to trust Chun Xiaobai's plan, and they hurried off with the messages.

Chun Xiaobai’s staged ransom recording convinced both factions that the other had arranged the kidnapping, and they each sent back a counteroffer. Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang returned to the abyss cavern with the replies for Chun Xiaobai.

• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang delivered the Image Recording Stones to the Righteous Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley.
• The Righteous Alliance elders suspected a third-party kidnapping, but Lu Qingshan persuaded them that Heavenly Baleful Valley had staged the bandit recording.
• Envoy Zhang ordered the Righteous Alliance to offer one million spirit stones and demand the hostages’ release.
• The elders of Heavenly Baleful Valley blamed the Hundred Sects Alliance and counteroffered five hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang received both replies and secretly returned to the abyss cavern to deliver them to Chun Xiaobai.

Chun Xiaobai grew furious when the two factions offered too little ransom, so he staged a convincing hostage mutilation to force them to pay more. The image of severed thighs sent both sides into panic and anger, and Envoy Zhang suspected the Heavenly Baleful Valley was provoking a war.

• Chun Xiaobai beat Lu Yunfei after learning that the hostages’ fathers had abundant Spirit Stones, then decided to raise the ransom by making the factions believe their sons had been mutilated.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and Heaven-Rending Hand to alter a Mirror Image Formation Talisman so it could create realistic images of the hostages being maimed.
• Chun Xiaobai had Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang record the staged scene as they cut thighs from corpses, then sent the bloody footage and supposed body parts to both factions.
• Envoy Zhang, Zheng Tianyuan, and the elders saw the severed thighs and realized the kidnappers had acted on their threat, while both groups erupted in anger and alarm.
• Envoy Zhang suspected the Heavenly Baleful Valley was using the kidnappings to provoke a war between the two factions.