Chapter Summaries

Chun Xiaobai fled after suffering a sudden nosebleed around a junior sister, while Bai Jin'er worried that the costly tonics she bought were not working and planned to make them stronger. Troubled by the unexplained heat in his body, Chun Xiaobai went down the mountain to find Fang Yuan and ask about a physician.

• Chun Xiaobai noticed that the supposedly Inner Sect disciples nearby were all Golden Core cultivators, then gave the junior sister a Storage Bag containing one million spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai's nose gushed blood after his hand brushed the junior sister, and he fled while she wondered if he had fallen for her.
• Bai Jin'er questioned whether her expensive medicinal herbs were fake and decided to increase the potency of her recipe.
• Chun Xiaobai returned covered in blood, drank Bai Jin'er's Fire-Reducing Soup, and plunged into the icy pool to cool himself.
• Chun Xiaobai found that emptying his mind eased the heat and nosebleeds, then went down the mountain to seek Fang Yuan and ask about a physician for men's ailments.

Chun Xiaobai sought a medicine master to examine his condition, but a dispute among Golden Core Realm old men inspired him to monetize the sect’s best cultivation areas with VIP seats and entry tickets. He sent Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang to build the new business, then remembered he still needed a medical examination.

• Chun Xiaobai asked Fang Yuan about Azure Cloud Sect’s medicine masters, and Fang Yuan named Saintess-Leng Suxin as the sect’s top medicine master.
• Chun Xiaobai decided to seek help for his condition, but he and Fang Yuan encountered old men extorting a young disciple over a mountain-path spot.
• Chun Xiaobai concluded the old men’s constant fighting threatened his business and ordered Fang Yuan to fetch Bai Yutang.
• Chun Xiaobai instructed Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang to build luxurious VIP seats and charge five thousand spirit stones per seat each day.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered them to clear two more areas and increase the total number of entry tickets to eighty thousand, with plans to raise it to a hundred thousand.
• After Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang hurried off to carry out the orders, Chun Xiaobai remembered that he still needed to get his condition examined.

Chun Xiaobai raised the Spirit-Gathering Array’s efficiency to eightyfold, while Bai Jin'er proposed draining other sects after the Azure Cloud Sect. Mu Qinglan investigated the sect’s thinning spiritual qi, found no fault in the grand array, and hurried back to the Main Hall after receiving an urgent summons.

• Bai Jin'er told Chun Xiaobai that their business had earned six hundred million spirit stones and suggested moving on to drain other sects; he agreed to let her look for a target.
• Chun Xiaobai went to the Pavilion Hall and raised the Spirit-Gathering Array’s efficiency to eightyfold.
• The extra eighty thousand Entry Tickets sold out before dawn, clearing the queue outside the entrance.
• Mu Qinglan searched for the Little Bandit who had clubbed her but found no trace of him, then noticed that the Azure Cloud Sect’s spiritual qi had grown thinner.
• Mu Qinglan inspected the Heavenly and Earthly Infinite Array and found it intact, but she still could not explain the missing spiritual qi.
• The Mission Hall Master urgently summoned Mu Qinglan, who returned to the Main Hall and found him with two Deputy Hall Masters.

Mu Qinglan learned that the Azure Cloud Sect’s mission acceptance, pill sales, and Spirit-Gathering Array applications had sharply declined, but the hall masters could not identify the cause. Meanwhile, Chun Xiaobai profited from selling entry tickets on his mountain and refused to expand further, wary that the sect would discover what was happening.

• Qian Wantong reported that Inner Sect mission acceptance had dropped by thirty percent, and Mu Qinglan demanded to know why he had delayed reporting it.
• The Pill Affairs Hall master reported a forty-percent fall in pill sales, while the Spirit Affairs Hall master reported a sixty-percent drop in applications for Spirit-Gathering Arrays.
• The hall masters offered guesses but had no evidence, so Mu Qinglan ordered them to investigate within three days or make up the shortfall by taking missions themselves.
• Chun Xiaobai celebrated the money earned from selling a hundred thousand entry tickets and said he wanted to establish the Black Wind Stronghold to make money on his own turf.
• Bai Yutang suggested selling another fifty thousand tickets, but Chun Xiaobai refused, and Bai Jin'er warned that drawing more disciples would make the sect’s leaders investigate.

Chun Xiaobai suffered a mysterious surge of internal heat and sought the Azure Cloud Sect’s Saintess for treatment. Fang Yuan led him out of the heaven grotto heavens toward her remote home in the middle grotto heavens.

• Chun Xiaobai ordered Bai Yutang and Fang Yuan to keep the disciples quiet and hire more hands, while Bai Jin'er warned them to protect the Boss’s profits.
• Bai Jin'er served Chun Xiaobai soup laced with an increased dose, and he soon suffered a sudden nosebleed after encountering a female disciple.
• Chun Xiaobai soaked in the pool for hours, but his internal heat worsened until seeing Bai Jin'er seemed to make it vanish.
• Chun Xiaobai decided he needed a professional medicine master and asked Fang Yuan to take him to the Saintess.
• Fang Yuan led Chun Xiaobai out of the heaven grotto heavens and explained that the Saintess lived remotely in the middle grotto heavens.

Chun Xiaobai visited Leng Suxin, the Azure Cloud Sect's Saintess, seeking treatment for what he believed was fire poison, but her presence made his nosebleed grow dangerously worse. Leng Suxin invited him inside to examine him.

• Fang Yuan brought Chun Xiaobai to Leng Suxin's secluded grotto after Chun Xiaobai insisted he needed medical treatment.
• The medicine attendant mistook Fang Yuan for someone seeking weight-loss medicine, then suggested Chun Xiaobai might have fire poison.
• Chun Xiaobai's nosebleed erupted and worsened when the medicine attendant touched him, splashing blood on her and Fang Yuan.
• Leng Suxin emerged, blocked Chun Xiaobai's nosebleed with an invisible barrier, and examined his condition with concern.
• Leng Suxin invited Chun Xiaobai inside, while he feared his worsening symptoms meant he was going into shock.

Leng Suxin examined Chun Xiaobai and discovered his extraordinary meridians and the vast quantity of potent yang herbs inside him, then mistook him for a depleted Unorthodox Cultivator. The chapter ended with her concluding that his offer of twenty million spirit stones was a scheme to make her release the herbs’ medicinal power through her body.

• Chun Xiaobai asked Leng Suxin to examine his persistent nosebleed, and she found that he was not poisoned.
• Leng Suxin felt Chun Xiaobai’s wrist and was shocked by his unusually thick meridians and overwhelming blood vitality.
• Leng Suxin sensed at least ten stalks’ worth of five-thousand-year-old dragon yang grass in Chun Xiaobai’s body and suspected he had depleted himself using the Essence-Absorbing Art.
• Chun Xiaobai asked whether his condition could be cured, and Leng Suxin nodded.
• Fang Yuan offered Leng Suxin twenty million spirit stones to cure Chun Xiaobai, and Leng Suxin concluded that Chun Xiaobai wanted to use the money to force her to dispel the medicinal power with her body.

Chun Xiaobai retaliated after Leng Suxin slapped him, but Fang Yuan stopped him before she could report him to the Sect Master and expose the mountain’s business. As Chun Xiaobai and Fang Yuan left, Chun Xiaobai saw an unprecedented black pillar of fortune above Leng Suxin and wondered what it meant.

• Leng Suxin mistook Chun Xiaobai’s nosebleed for a ploy and slapped him, prompting him to seize her wrist and strike her repeatedly.
• Fang Yuan tried to restrain Chun Xiaobai and warned him that Leng Suxin’s master was a Sect ancestor, but Chun Xiaobai continued until Leng Suxin threatened to report him to the Sect Master.
• Fang Yuan reminded Chun Xiaobai that a report could expose the mountain’s business, so Chun Xiaobai released Leng Suxin, who stumbled to the ground.
• Chun Xiaobai noticed Leng Suxin’s concealed killing intent and used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to discover a black pillar of fortune above her head.
• Fang Yuan hurried Chun Xiaobai down the mountain, while Chun Xiaobai wondered why the Medicine Cultivator had a black pillar of fortune.

Chun Xiaobai suspected that Leng Suxin’s strange black aura was connected to the Black Flame Blade and might indicate demonic cultivation. Convinced he needed to investigate her secret, he sneaked toward her mountain at night but found a barrier blocking his way.

• Chun Xiaobai recognized that Leng Suxin’s black pillar of light resembled the sinister aura of the Black Flame Blade, and Fang Yuan hurried him away before the Sect Master arrived.
• Leng Suxin swore to kill Chun Xiaobai for humiliating her, then worried that he might have seen through her secret.
• Chun Xiaobai realized his lustful urges had vanished after his anger toward Leng Suxin and decided to investigate the connection between her aura and the Black Flame Blade.
• Chun Xiaobai concluded that Leng Suxin might be a demon cultivator and feared her secret could bring disaster upon the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Chun Xiaobai put on his Black Hood and crept toward Leng Suxin’s mountain at night, but a transparent barrier stopped him.

Chun Xiaobai infiltrated Leng Suxin’s residence to investigate whether she was a demon cultivator, but found no outward signs until his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye revealed a black bead in her dantian. After absorbing the energy inside it and gaining a burst of cultivation, he feared the energy was demonic and that his Martial God Art might be a Demonic Path technique.

• Chun Xiaobai slipped through Leng Suxin’s third-tier defensive array and crept toward her bamboo building.
• When Leng Suxin sensed him, Chun Xiaobai appeared beside her and used Heaven-Sealing Finger to knock her unconscious.
• Chun Xiaobai searched Leng Suxin for demonic traits, then used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and found an egg-sized black bead sealed in her dantian.
• Chun Xiaobai circulated the Martial God Art and absorbed a torrent of black mystic energy from Leng Suxin, causing his cultivation to rise before she became weak.
• Chun Xiaobai realized the energy might have been demonic and wondered whether his Martial God Art was a Demonic Path cultivation technique.

Chun Xiaobai suspected Leng Suxin was a Demon Cultivator after discovering she could absorb sinister energy, so he questioned her while keeping her blinded and weakened. Leng Suxin, secretly the Divine Maiden of the Netherworld Divine Palace, denied the accusation and tried to persuade him she was a healer; Chun Xiaobai was left uncertain.

• Chun Xiaobai noticed Leng Suxin's unusually large golden core and restored only her hearing and speech.
• Chun Xiaobai demanded to know whether Leng Suxin was a Demon Cultivator, and she feared he had uncovered her identity.
• Leng Suxin realized Chun Xiaobai might only be guessing and denied being a Demon Cultivator.
• Chun Xiaobai slapped Leng Suxin and threatened to take her to the Sect Master for examination.
• Leng Suxin claimed she was the Azure Cloud Sect's Saintess and a healer who had treated thousands of sect members, leaving Chun Xiaobai stumped.

Chun Xiaobai accused Leng Suxin of being a Demon Cultivator, but she hid her identity by crying until he fled when her maid arrived. After recovering, Leng Suxin realized her Demonic Qi had been drained and suspected Chun Xiaobai belonged to the Evil King Hall, so she tried to alert the Netherworld Divine Palace.

• Chun Xiaobai accused Leng Suxin of concealing her Demon Cultivator identity behind her medical reputation after noticing her black Golden Core.
• Leng Suxin cried to deflect his accusations, but Chun Xiaobai grew frustrated and slapped her to stop her sobbing.
• When the Little Medicine Boy called from outside, Chun Xiaobai vanished, leaving Leng Suxin unable to move and unclothed.
• After about seven minutes, Leng Suxin regained movement and discovered that her Demonic Qi had been forcibly drained.
• Leng Suxin suspected Chun Xiaobai was a demon from the Evil King Hall and used a token to try to report him to the Netherworld Divine Palace.

Chun Xiaobai mistook Yun Huoyue’s attempt to help with his yang baleful intent for a plot to steal his Dao foundation and fled. Back at his mountain, he accepted Bai Jin’er’s offer of a secret sleep technique, which ended with her rushing out of his room in tears.

• Chun Xiaobai collided with Yun Huoyue, whose face flushed when she mistook his nosebleed for attraction to her.
• Yun Huoyue recognized Chun Xiaobai’s yang baleful intent and invited him to come with her, but he assumed she planned to extract his Dao foundation and escaped.
• Chun Xiaobai returned to his mountain and worried that his condition would harm his Martial Dao foundation.
• Bai Jin'er offered Chun Xiaobai a secret technique to help him sleep, and he followed her into his room.
• Bai Jin'er burst out of the room crying and accused Chun Xiaobai of lusting after her body.

Chun Xiaobai launched a top-up promotion to keep the Azure Cloud Sect’s disciples on his mountain, while Mu Qinglan discovered that the sect’s spiritual qi and income had sharply declined. After the hall masters reported steep drops in activity and sales, she ordered the sect into its highest state of alert.

• Chun Xiaobai summoned Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er and announced a top-up promotion, which Bai Yutang and Bai Jin'er praised as a way to keep disciples invested in the mountain.
• Mu Qinglan found that the Heaven and Earth Boundless Formation appeared intact even as the sect’s spiritual qi density plunged by forty percent.
• Mu Qinglan summoned the hall masters, who reported major declines in missions, Spirit-Gathering Array use, pill consumption, and other sect business.
• Mu Qinglan realized the Azure Cloud Sect could become unable to function within a month and ordered a Tier-Three Response.

Mu Qinglan ordered a full investigation after Azure Cloud Sect revenue plunged, but the elders discovered that more than half their elders and disciples had disappeared. Qian Wantong caught Wang Daxi hiding something, but Wang used his seniority to fend off questioning and left the Sect's investigation stalled.

• Mu Qinglan activated the Sect's level-three response and ordered the elders to investigate the sharp drop in hall revenue.
• The returning hall masters found that more than half their elders were missing, then discovered that more than half the Sect's disciples had vanished too.
• After two days without useful clues, the hall masters noticed ordinary elders acting suspiciously, and Qian Wantong confronted Wang Daxi in the Mission Hall.
• Wang Daxi refused to reveal the secret of Chun Xiaobai's blessed treasure spot because he and others had invested their fortunes there.
• When Qian Wantong threatened to use torture, Wang Daxi accused him of abusing his office, drawing nearby disciples and forcing Qian to back down.

Hall masters failed to uncover why elders and Inner Sect disciples were hiding what they knew, so Mu Qinglan ordered a secret investigation and summoned Lu Qingshan. Lu Qingshan arrived at the Sect Master's Main Hall to report on “Old Six,” who had clubbed Mu Qinglan from behind.

• Qian Wantong let Wang Daxi go rather than risk brutalizing a sect elder and angering the Sect Master.
• Yao Yuanzi and several hall masters questioned Inner Sect disciples, who dodged their questions and argued against Soul Searching.
• Yao Yuanzi drove the disciples out, and the hall masters decided their silence was a clue and reported it to Mu Qinglan.
• Mu Qinglan ordered the hall masters to keep investigating in secret, then contacted Lu Qingshan with a Communication Token.
• Two hours later, Lu Qingshan arrived at the Sect Master's Main Hall after investigating “Old Six.”

Mu Qinglan sent Lu Qingshan to investigate the sect’s recent abnormalities, but he learned Chun Xiaobai had left without registering and felt relieved. Leng Suxin later searched for Chun Xiaobai as well, but Steward Sun concealed what he knew, leaving her more suspicious about the missing disciple’s identity.

• Mu Qinglan tasked Lu Qingshan with secretly investigating the sect’s recent abnormalities and told him to stop searching for the Corpse Cleaner.
• Lu Qingshan went to the Affairs Hall and found no registration record for Chun Xiaobai.
• Steward Sun told Lu Qingshan that Chun Xiaobai had visited but left without registering, and Lu Qingshan hurried away in relief.
• Leng Suxin arrived to look up the residence of a disciple who had missed a follow-up treatment and searched the records for Chun Xiaobai.
• Leng Suxin asked Steward Sun about Chun Xiaobai, but he denied knowing anything and withheld his suspicions.
• Leng Suxin left in embarrassment and anger, still unsure whether Chun Xiaobai was a demon cultivator or the person who had scrubbed her body.

Chun Xiaobai divided the huge profits from his spiritual-qi venture among his subordinates, then planned to upgrade the Azure Cloud Sect’s Heaven and Earth Boundless Formation to attract customers for a premium cultivation experience. After two days touring the deserted inner sect, Lu Qingshan suspected his brother had caused the problem.

• Bai Jin'er, Fang Yuan, and Bai Yutang reported that their venture had earned 2.35 billion spirit stones, and Chun Xiaobai awarded them shares of the profits.
• Bai Yutang received five hundred million spirit stones and clung to Chun Xiaobai, calling him his real father.
• Chun Xiaobai concluded that repairing the Heaven and Earth Boundless Formation’s Array Foundation nodes could let him activate its sixth-tier functions and raise spiritual-qi concentration to two hundredfold.
• Chun Xiaobai left the sect with his three subordinates to repair the array and prepare a premium cultivation package.
• Lu Qingshan spent two days touring the inner sect, found it frighteningly deserted, and suspected Chun Xiaobai was responsible.

Lu Qingshan discovered that Inner Sect disciples were avoiding him and suspected they were hiding the cause of the Sect’s declining Spiritual Qi and sales. He disguised himself as a disciple to investigate, but failed to pass the disciples’ password check.

• Lu Qingshan caught a fleeing disciple, who refused to reveal what the Inner Sect disciples were hiding, even when Lu offered him a chance to attend the Heavenly Prodigy Tournament.
• Lu Qingshan realized he could infiltrate the disciples by posing as one of them.
• Lu Qingshan changed into disciple robes, shaved his beard, and disguised his face with makeup.
• Lu Qingshan approached a group of disciples and asked to join their event, but he did not know the password, Imperial Jade Liquid Wine, and they told him to get lost.

Lu Qingshan and the Azure Cloud Sect’s hall masters independently investigated the disciples’ mysterious “Imperial Jade Liquid Wine” clue but found no answers. The hall masters brought their dilemma to Mu Qinglan, proposing Soul Searching as a last resort and waiting for her decision.

• Lu Qingshan heard disciples mention “Imperial Jade Liquid Wine,” mistook it for a wine gathering, and set out to investigate taverns around Azure Cloud Sect.
• The hall masters searched for the mysterious clue themselves but found no related gathering or useful information.
• Yao Yuanzi rejected Soul Searching because it could brand Azure Cloud Sect a Demon Sect, while the hall masters admitted that attempts to torture disciples had provoked thousands of them to intervene.
• Qian Wantong argued that “Imperial Jade Liquid Wine” remained the key, and a hall master suggested asking the Sect Master for permission to use Soul Searching.
• Yao Yuanzi reported the investigation and the proposed Soul Searching to Mu Qinglan in the Sect Master's Main Hall.