Chapter Summaries

Chun Xiaobai escaped Cangshan Daoist after a disastrous divination cost the old man thousands of years of lifespan and a precious medicinal herb. Back at his Cave Abode, Chun Xiaobai reunited with Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan, then asked them to contact Bai Yutang, who was recounting his encounter to the Inner Sect elders.

• Cangshan Daoist aged rapidly from the divination backlash, lost thousands of years of lifespan, and used a supreme medicinal herb to stop it.
• Cangshan Daoist realized Chun Xiaobai might be the Azure Cloud Sect's lucky star and his disciple's future husband, but Chun Xiaobai fled before he could catch him.
• Chun Xiaobai returned to his repaired Cave Abode, where he found Bai Jin'er sorting through her treasures.
• Bai Jin'er suggested that they move to another sect and sell spiritual qi, but Chun Xiaobai explained they needed a powerful Primordial Spirit-Gathering Array.
• Fang Yuan arrived, and Chun Xiaobai told him to contact Bai Yutang for an update.
• Bai Yutang ate and drank with the Inner Sect Grand Supreme Elders while recounting how a black-hooded attacker had knocked him unconscious.

Chun Xiaobai worried that the Sect might interrogate Bai Yutang, so he focused on growing stronger by spending 1.5 billion spirit stones. After advancing to the bone treasury stage, he devised a scheme to make money by selling demonic qi from his Black Flame Blade.

• Bai Yutang dodged the Grand Supreme Elders’ questions, ate and drank at their expense, and ignored Fang Yuan’s message.
• Chun Xiaobai concluded that Bai Yutang was probably being held by the Sect, then returned to his Cultivation Room to train rather than rely on him.
• Chun Xiaobai consumed all 1.5 billion spirit stones and advanced from the skin treasury stage to the bone treasury stage.
• Chun Xiaobai decided he could make money by extracting demonic qi from his Black Flame Blade and using it to extort wealthy targets.

Chun Xiaobai decided to sell demonic qi from his Black Flame Blade and convinced Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to join him. He planned to pose as Emperor Pavilion emissaries and extort wealthy criminals, leaving the trio ready to choose their first target.

• Chun Xiaobai gathered Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er and announced that he would lead them into the business of selling demonic qi.
• Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan feared the Emperor Pavilion’s response, but Chun Xiaobai argued that selling demonic qi was no riskier than selling spiritual qi.
• Chun Xiaobai revealed the demonic artifact and its black mist, showing them the demonic qi he intended to sell.
• Chun Xiaobai proposed marking a wealthy person with demonic qi, then posing as Emperor Pavilion emissaries to demand payment for their arrest.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er praised the scheme, and Chun Xiaobai told them to find wealthy targets known for serious crimes.

Chun Xiaobai decided to target Han Fei, a wealthy Inner Sect disciple, as the first customer for his new money-making scheme. Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er found Han Fei at a gathering of True Disciples, leaving Chun Xiaobai ready to pursue him.

• Fang Yuan received word that Bai Yutang was safe, and Bai Jin'er warned that the Sect had released him to lure out Chun Xiaobai.
• Fang Yuan identified Han Fei as a wealthy, notorious disciple from a major Lineage, and Chun Xiaobai chose him as a target.
• Chun Xiaobai sent Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to investigate Han Fei, while he considered expanding his business to sell demonic qi.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er returned quickly and reported that Han Fei was attending a meeting with the Sect's True Disciples.

Chun Xiaobai learned that more than ten thousand true disciples had gathered for a meeting, while Mu Qinglan struggled to restore her reputation as Sect Master. Lu Qingshan proposed revamping the mission-points system and using points to manage access to the sixth-tier spirit-gathering array, leaving Mu Qinglan intrigued by the plan.

• Chun Xiaobai sent Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to find out why the true disciples had gathered and what the elders were doing.
• Mu Qinglan waited angrily for Lu Qingshan, who had failed to investigate the man she had tasked him with finding.
• Lu Qingshan persuaded Mu Qinglan to address her damaged reputation by changing the sect's mission-points system.
• Lu Qingshan proposed bonus points for completed missions and selling cultivation time in the sixth-tier spirit-gathering array in exchange for points.
• Mu Qinglan realized the plan could help allocate access to the array, whose space and earth-vein power could not serve a million disciples without limits.

Mu Qinglan accepted Lu Qingshan’s proposal to use points and generous bonuses to allocate the Spirit-Gathering Array and promote Sect businesses, believing it could revitalize the Azure Cloud Sect. Meanwhile, Chun Xiaobai learned that Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er had spent a fortune buying supplies during the Sect’s promotion and realized the scheme sounded familiar.

• Lu Qingshan persuaded Mu Qinglan that a points system and bonus promotions could solve the Sect’s allocation problems and boost its businesses.
• Mu Qinglan agreed to try Lu Qingshan’s plan, and he hurried out of the hall while she reflected on its potential to restore the Azure Cloud Sect.
• After waiting a day and night without seeing Fang Yuan or Bai Jin'er, Chun Xiaobai prepared to flee when they returned to his cave abode.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er told Chun Xiaobai they had spent hundreds of millions of spirit stones on pills, magical artifacts, and talismans to claim the promotion’s free bonuses.
• Chun Xiaobai recognized the promotion as a familiar scheme and exclaimed that it was plagiarism.

Chun Xiaobai realized the Azure Cloud Sect had copied his promotion trick, but the sale had distracted its disciples from pursuing him. He prepared to test his demonic-qi business by planting a demonic weapon outside Han Fei’s cave abode, where Fang Yuan narrowly dodged an incoming attack.

• Chun Xiaobai learned that Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er had bought more pills, talismans, and magical artifacts than they could use during the sect-wide sale.
• Bai Jin'er reported that the true disciples had abandoned their plans to capture Chun Xiaobai and rushed to take advantage of the sect's promotions.
• Chun Xiaobai decided to use Han Fei as a test for his demonic-qi business and waited until nightfall before summoning Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er.
• Chun Xiaobai extracted demonic qi from his saber and infused it into an Earth Tier long sword, turning it into a demonic weapon.
• Fang Yuan planted the demonic sword outside Han Fei's cave abode, then ducked and rolled into the grass when a shrill whistle sounded overhead.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions lured Han Fei into taking a demonic artifact, then confronted him while recording the evidence. Han Fei realized the danger of being caught with it and was left terrified as Chun Xiaobai ordered him to return to the Emperor Pavilion for questioning.

• Han Fei investigated the black mist outside his cave abode and found a supreme earth artifact hidden within it.
• Han Fei celebrated the find, believing it would help him seize the Azure Cloud Sect's Heaven and Earth Boundless Formation.
• Fang Yuan and the others revealed themselves and recorded Han Fei holding the artifact.
• Han Fei attacked the intruders, but Chun Xiaobai stopped him with a powerful kick.
• Chun Xiaobai presented the Emperor Pavilion token and ordered Han Fei to come in for questioning.
• Han Fei recognized the weapon as a demonic artifact, dropped it, and panicked over the consequences for himself, the Azure Cloud Sect, and the Han Household.

Chun Xiaobai, Fang Yuan, and Bai Jin'er confronted Han Fei over the Demonic Artifact and convinced him they were Emperor Pavilion officers. After taking his valuables and the Demonic Sword, they vanished, leaving Han Fei terrified and considering flight.

• Han Fei tried to attack Chun Xiaobai with talismans, but Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Sealing Finger to immobilize him and slapped him.
• Han Fei recognized Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er, then stopped accusing them when he realized they had evidence against him.
• Bai Jin'er urged Chun Xiaobai to kill Han Fei, but Chun Xiaobai refused and ordered him to come along.
• Han Fei tried to gather spiritual power, but Chun Xiaobai dispersed it with a touch, convincing Han Fei that resistance was futile.
• Han Fei offered his Storage Bags and Storage Ring as tea money, and Fang Yuan helped Chun Xiaobai justify letting him go.
• Chun Xiaobai took Han Fei's valuables and the Demonic Sword, then vanished with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er, leaving Han Fei thinking he should run.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions looted Han Fei and debated how to expand their demonic-qi scam beyond the Azure Cloud Sect. The chapter ended with them considering Elder Lu Qingshan as a partner who could introduce them to new targets.

• Han Fei fled the sect gates after realizing the Han lineage would punish him if news of his suspected collusion with Demon Cultivators spread.
• Chun Xiaobai, Fang Yuan, and Bai Jin'er sorted through the artifacts, pills, talismans, and spirit stones they had taken from Han Fei.
• Chun Xiaobai rejected Bai Jin'er's suggestion to kill Han Fei, deciding they could keep exploiting him and that he had no evidence against them.
• Chun Xiaobai decided the Azure Cloud Sect was too small a source of profit and considered targeting powerful sects beyond it.
• Bai Jin'er suggested recruiting a sect elder with outside connections, and Fang Yuan proposed Elder Lu Qingshan.

Chun Xiaobai decided to recruit Lu Qingshan for a scheme, then sent Bai Yutang to ask Lu to “arrest” him, while Bai Yutang mistook the order for a secret code. Meanwhile, Mu Qinglan celebrated the Azure Cloud Sect’s windfall but recognized that spirit stones alone could not restore its former standing.

• Chun Xiaobai chose Lu Qingshan as the man to help Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er with their plans, but decided not to visit him because he feared the spear-wielding old woman.
• Chun Xiaobai sent Bai Yutang a secret order to contact Lu Qingshan and ask him to come arrest Chun Xiaobai.
• Bai Yutang decided the arrest request was another code signaling that Chun Xiaobai had leverage over Lu Qingshan, and set off for the Inner Sect.
• Mu Qinglan reviewed the Sect Ledger and rejoiced that the Azure Cloud Sect had sold its old pills and artifacts for a vast number of spirit stones.
• Mu Qinglan concluded that the sect would also need top-tier artifacts and pills to regain its former status as the Azure Cloud Sacred Land.

Mu Qinglan searched for the Azure Cloud Sect’s prophesied lucky star while Lu Qingshan struggled to find Chun Xiaobai and conceal their friendship. When Bai Yutang offered to lead Lu Qingshan to the person who activated the spirit-gathering array, Lu Qingshan grew suspicious that Chun Xiaobai had set a trap.

• Mu Qinglan wondered whether the mysterious bandit who extorted the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley was the sect’s lucky star.
• Lu Qingshan promised Mu Qinglan he would find the thief who drained the sect’s spirit veins within three days, while hiding that he knew Chun Xiaobai.
• Mu Qinglan suspected Lu Qingshan was lying but let him leave without remembering to give him a reward.
• Lu Qingshan flew toward his mountain and ran into Bai Yutang outside the Sect Master's Main Hall.
• Bai Yutang told Lu Qingshan that Chun Xiaobai had activated the spirit-gathering array, and Lu Qingshan suspected Chun Xiaobai was lying in ambush.

Bai Yutang tried to lure Lu Qingshan to meet Chun Xiaobai by revealing his identity and promising him five hundred million spirit stones. Lu Qingshan suspected a trap but ultimately agreed to go with Bai Yutang and collect his share.

• Lu Qingshan rejected Bai Yutang’s offer to help arrest Chun Xiaobai and warned him to tell Chun Xiaobai that he would keep the Sect from pursuing him.
• Bai Yutang told Lu Qingshan that Chun Xiaobai had made three billion and promised him five hundred million for meeting outside the Sect.
• Lu Qingshan doubted Bai Yutang’s promise, but Bai Yutang showed him a Storage Ring containing five hundred million spirit stones.
• Lu Qingshan tried to snatch Bai Yutang’s ring, but Bai Yutang pulled it away and said Chun Xiaobai was holding Lu Qingshan’s share.
• Lu Qingshan weighed the danger against the promised money and agreed to go with Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang lured Lu Qingshan to Green Bamboo Peak, where Chun Xiaobai tried to recruit him for a lucrative business by drawing on his knowledge and connections. Lu Qingshan remained suspicious but began describing the Eastern Region’s major sects.

• Bai Yutang promised Lu Qingshan a share of five hundred million and brought him to Green Bamboo Peak.
• Fang Yuan welcomed Lu Qingshan into the cave abode, where Chun Xiaobai greeted him.
• Lu Qingshan demanded his promised spirit stones, but Chun Xiaobai claimed they could make at least five billion together.
• Chun Xiaobai asked about Lu Qingshan’s connections and knowledge of the Eastern Region’s sects.
• Lu Qingshan explained the region’s major sects and said the Azure Cloud Sect had once been a sacred land before a traitor weakened it.

Chun Xiaobai tried to recruit Lu Qingshan into a scheme to sell demonic qi, insisting they would only pretend to be Demon Cultivators and use the threat of exposure to extort sects. Lu Qingshan remained wary as Chun Xiaobai explained that the Emperor Pavilion’s fearsome reputation would make the plan profitable.

• Lu Qingshan bragged about visiting many sects and warned Chun Xiaobai that their Spirit-Gathering Arrays could not be easily siphoned.
• Chun Xiaobai offered Lu Qingshan five billion spirit stones for joining a new business, and Fang Yuan, Bai Jin'er, and Bai Yutang displayed their valuable possessions to tempt him.
• Chun Xiaobai revealed that he planned to sell demonic qi, startling Lu Qingshan, who feared the Azure Cloud Sect would be destroyed if it were linked to Demon Cultivators.
• Chun Xiaobai assured Lu Qingshan that they would only borrow the Demon Cultivators’ name, then said he planned to visit sects and lineages to sell demonic qi.
• When Lu Qingshan tried to flee, Chun Xiaobai held him in place and proposed planting demonic qi in sects, recording it, and demanding hush money.

Chun Xiaobai persuaded Lu Qingshan to join his scheme to frame wealthy sects with demonic qi and extort them, using the promise of five billion spirit stones and an Emperor Pavilion token to ease Lu Qingshan’s fears. Lu Qingshan agreed and began naming potential targets, but still demanded to know where Chun Xiaobai got the demonic qi.

• Lu Qingshan balked at Chun Xiaobai’s plan, but Chun Xiaobai argued that the threat of the Emperor Pavilion would let them demand enormous sums from the framed sects.
• Lu Qingshan refused at first, then reconsidered the five-billion-spirit-stone payoff and worried that Chun Xiaobai might truly be involved with demon cultivators.
• Chun Xiaobai showed Lu Qingshan a Purple-Gold Token and claimed he had backing in the Emperor Pavilion.
• Lu Qingshan decided to join the scheme and asked Chun Xiaobai what he needed him to do.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Lu Qingshan to name rich, arrogant sects in the Eastern Region, and Lu Qingshan began listing targets before asking where the demonic qi came from.

Chun Xiaobai revealed his Demonic Artifact and persuaded Lu Qingshan to join his scheme, then chose the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect as their first target. The group prepared disguises as Emperor Pavilion Envoys and arrived at Ten Thousand Flowers City.

• Chun Xiaobai showed Lu Qingshan his Black Flame Blade, and Lu Qingshan tried to flee before Chun Xiaobai persuaded him to join for the promised riches.
• Lu Qingshan agreed to help with one job and named the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect as their target, citing its female elders and the Third Elder.
• Chun Xiaobai and the others traveled to a market near the Azure Cloud Sect and commissioned four imitation sets of Emperor Pavilion armor.
• Lu Qingshan disguised his face to avoid recognition, and five days later the group arrived at Ten Thousand Flowers City.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions reached the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect and devised a plan to infiltrate it under the guise of Emperor Pavilion envoys. Chun Xiaobai searched the sect for a powerful elder to target, then heard a woman's moans coming from a lit tower and crept toward it.

• Chun Xiaobai learned that the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect was wealthy and powerful, and that its cultivation art made Lu Qingshan wary of its female disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai decided the group should pose as envoys from the Emperor Pavilion, and Lu Qingshan reluctantly agreed.
• Chun Xiaobai left the others, disguised himself in his Night-Walking Garment, and prepared a sword infused with demonic qi.
• Chun Xiaobai searched the Inner Sect through the night but found no elders suitable for his plan.
• Chun Xiaobai heard a woman's moans from a brightly lit tower, sealed his aura, and crept toward it.

Chun Xiaobai left a demonic sword at the hall, and Liu Ruhuo used it to kill Liu Fan after he recognized its demonic qi. Wang Xu discovered the scene and learned that a hidden witness had recorded it and was demanding ten billion spirit stones, leaving the sect scrambling to catch the black-clad figure.

• Chun Xiaobai planted a sword wreathed in demonic qi outside the hall and vanished before Liu Ruhuo came out.
• Liu Ruhuo took the sword, and Liu Fan recognized its demonic qi and accused her of being a demon cultivator.
• Liu Ruhuo stabbed Liu Fan through the heart as he tried to flee, while a hidden figure recorded the killing and escaped.
• Wang Xu arrived, recognized the demonic qi, and prepared to kill Liu Ruhuo until she heard that the scene had been recorded.
• Wang Xu seized a Sound Recording Stone and heard the witness demand ten billion spirit stones at Fallen Phoenix Slope within two hours.
• Wang Xu ordered Liu Ruhuo to chase the witness.

After discovering a dead Demon Cultivator and evidence of a recording, Wang Luan ordered the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect to seal the area and hunt down the witness. Chun Xiaobai fled the massive search, but Wang Xu pursued him and accused him of framing the Sect.

• Hall Master Wang summoned the elders and told Wang Luan that a Demon Cultivator had been found dead with recording stones nearby.
• Wang Luan destroyed the Sound Recording Stone and ordered the Sect to blockade the area and search Fallen Phoenix Slope for the person with the Image Recording Stone.
• Chun Xiaobai watched the Sect mobilize and tried to slip away to rejoin Lu Qingshan and the others.
• Wang Xu spotted Chun Xiaobai and pursued him, but he escaped her divine sense and she reported the encounter to Wang Luan.
• Chun Xiaobai raced through the Sect as thousands of disciples and elders pursued him, while Wang Xu caught up and demanded to know why he was framing the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect.