Chapter Summaries

Chun Xiaobai escaped Wang Xu by hiding in the Martial God Tower after threatening to expose the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect unless it paid him ten billion spirit stones. At Fallen Phoenix Slope, Wang Luan and the elders debated whether Chun Xiaobai was an extortionist or an enemy seeking revenge, while Wang Xu suggested he might truly be trying to extort them.

• Chun Xiaobai threatened Wang Xu with exposing the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s Demon Cultivator unless it paid ten billion spirit stones, then vanished using the Martial God Tower.
• Wang Xu went to Fallen Phoenix Slope, where Warships surrounded the area, and Hall Master Liu reported Chun Xiaobai’s threat to Wang Luan.
• Wang Luan and the elders questioned why Chun Xiaobai had brought a Demonic Artifact into the sect and considered whether he wanted to extort them.
• The Ancestor warned that Chun Xiaobai might be an awakened demon seeking revenge, and a timid elder suggested the sect flee.
• Wang Xu said Chun Xiaobai seemed as though he really might be trying to extort the sect.

Wang Luan prepared to capture Chun Xiaobai and recover the Image Recording Stone, but the arrival of four Emperor Pavilion Envoys in Ten Thousand Flowers City forced him to greet them instead. At the inn, Lu Qingshan and his companions feared Chun Xiaobai had fallen into the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s hands, then pretended to be genuine envoys when Wang Luan arrived to pay his respects.

• Wang Luan urged the elders to capture Chun Xiaobai and recover the Image Recording Stone before time ran out.
• A Core Elder announced that four Emperor Pavilion Envoys had arrived in Ten Thousand Flowers City, and Wang Luan decided to greet them.
• At the city’s largest inn, Lu Qingshan enjoyed the benefits of his Emperor Pavilion disguise while Fang Yuan, Bai Yutang, and Bai Jin'er worried that Chun Xiaobai had not returned.
• Lu Qingshan tried to flee when he recognized Wang Luan approaching, but Bai Yutang reminded him that they were disguised as Emperor Pavilion Envoys.
• Wang Luan entered the room with his female elders and knelt before Lu Qingshan and the others, greeting them as honored envoys.

Lu Qingshan, Bai Yutang, Fang Yuan, and Bai Jin'er intimidated Wang Luan and the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elders while pretending to be Emperor Pavilion envoys. After the sect leaders left, Lu Qingshan discovered their gift contained twenty billion spirit stones, and Bai Yutang warned him to stay quiet because they had not gone far.

• Lu Qingshan froze as Wang Luan and the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elders knelt, then awkwardly told them they could rise.
• Bai Yutang accused Wang Luan of causing a commotion, and Wang Luan explained that the sect had killed a Flower-Picking Bandit.
• Bai Jin'er reacted angrily to the account, and Fang Yuan accused the sect of harboring a demon; Wang Luan pleaded that they were innocent.
• Lu Qingshan hurt his hand slamming the defensive Mystic Artifact table, while Wang Luan began to suspect the supposed envoys were not genuine.
• Fang Yuan claimed the Emperor Pavilion was tracking a powerful demon and ordered the sect not to interfere, so Wang Luan and the elders withdrew after giving them a Storage Ring.
• Lu Qingshan found twenty billion spirit stones in the ring, and Bai Yutang covered his mouth and warned him that Wang Luan and the others had not gone far.

Bai Jin'er, Fang Yuan, and Bai Yutang argued with Lu Qingshan over the Storage Ring while worrying that Chun Xiaobai had been captured or killed. Trapped inside the Martial God Tower, Chun Xiaobai opened the second level and entered its Eighteen Bronze Man Formation, where the bronze men immediately attacked him.

• Bai Jin'er seized the Storage Ring and stopped Lu Qingshan from taking it until the Chief returned.
• Bai Jin'er insisted Chun Xiaobai was alive and urged the others to rescue him, while Lu Qingshan warned that the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect might have captured him.
• Chun Xiaobai hid inside the Martial God Tower because the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect's women had surrounded the mountain and he feared they would catch him.
• Chun Xiaobai opened the Tower's second level and saw eighteen armed bronze men arranged in a formation.
• Chun Xiaobai entered the formation with a golden staff, but the bronze men came alive and one slashed at his head.

Chun Xiaobai fought his way through the Martial God Tower’s second level, using his golden staff like a saber to defeat all eighteen bronze men. A bronze wall then revealed bell-based martial techniques, leaving him wondering whether the tower would provide him with a bell.

• Chun Xiaobai dodged the bronze men’s attacks and discovered that his Gale Saber Technique could knock them down.
• Chun Xiaobai used a Whirlwind Slash and then repeatedly charged the bronze men until he knocked all eighteen flat.
• Chun Xiaobai celebrated, but the bronze men sprang back up and formed ranks as the tower shook.
• A stone platform rose from the floor, revealing a bronze wall covered with illustrations of bells and instructions for bell-based techniques.
• Chun Xiaobai lamented that he needed saber or staff techniques, then realized the tower should give him a bell too.

Chun Xiaobai learned the Golden Bell Shield in the Martial God Tower and used it to repel a Nascent Soul elder while fleeing the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect disciples. Despite sensing an ambush at Fallen Phoenix Mountain, he headed there to collect the ten billion spirit stones.

• Chun Xiaobai memorized a bell illustration in the Martial God Tower and received the Golden Bell Shield technique before the tower expelled him.
• Chun Xiaobai ate pills to recover, but Ten Thousand Flowers Sect disciples recognized him as the sex fiend and chased him.
• A Nascent Soul elder attacked Chun Xiaobai, but his Golden Bell Shield reflected the strike and sent her flying, allowing him to escape.
• At a fork in the road, Chun Xiaobai chose to go to Fallen Phoenix Mountain for the ten billion spirit stones rather than rejoin Fang Yuan and the others.
• Chun Xiaobai sensed a powerful presence and an ambush near Fallen Phoenix Mountain, then worried that his Heaven-Sealing Finger could not hide his scent.

Chun Xiaobai disguised himself with an overwhelming stench and approached Fallen Phoenix Mountain, where Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s leaders waited to capture him and seize his evidence. Wang Luan stopped his attack when Chun Xiaobai threatened to spread the Image Stone proving the sect’s collusion with demon cultivators.

• Chun Xiaobai soaked himself in foul smells and covered himself with pungent foods and spices before heading to Fallen Phoenix Mountain.
• Wang Luan and the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elders discussed capturing Chun Xiaobai and taking the evidence he held against their sect.
• Hall Master Liu realized Chun Xiaobai might be using his stench to counter the sect’s sensitive sense of smell.
• The stench drove the elders out of their cave, where they spotted Chun Xiaobai placing Oli Gei around the mountain.
• Wang Luan attacked Chun Xiaobai, but Chun Xiaobai threatened to distribute copies of the Image Stone unless he returned safely, stopping Wang Luan’s palm just above his head.

Chun Xiaobai blackmailed Wang Luan by claiming the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect had colluded with a demon, and Wang Luan paid him twenty billion spirit stones for his Image Recording Stone. After Chun Xiaobai fled, Wang Luan suspected he knew the sect’s secret and ordered the sect to capture him before he escaped.

• Wang Luan nearly killed Chun Xiaobai, but stopped when Chun Xiaobai accused the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect of colluding with a demon and threatened to report them.
• Chun Xiaobai demanded ten billion spirit stones for the cost of surviving the elders’ pursuit, and Wang Luan gave him a Storage Ring containing twenty billion in exchange for the Image Recording Stone.
• Chun Xiaobai accepted the payment, handed over the stone, and fled at high speed.
• Wang Luan told the elders to follow Chun Xiaobai so they could catch him and his supposed brothers together.
• The elders noticed Chun Xiaobai’s foul stench masking his aura and realized he knew the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s secret.
• Wang Luan ordered the sect to seal the routes, capture Chun Xiaobai, and keep him from leaving the sect’s territory alive.

Chun Xiaobai fled the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s pursuing Grand Supreme Elders while searching for a way to escape. Meanwhile, Crow Daoist used a Divine Concealment Talisman to sneak toward the sect’s Treasure Vault, and Chun Xiaobai activated his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye as he continued running.

• Chun Xiaobai sealed his aura and raced toward Ten Thousand Flowers City, but the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s Grand Supreme Elders caught up with him.
• Chun Xiaobai used Shrinking Land to Inches to escape the pursuing elders and dashed through a group of searching Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elders.
• Crow Daoist saw the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect searching its territory, guessed that a treasure was involved, and decided to raid its Treasure Vault.
• Crow Daoist activated the Divine Concealment Talisman and cautiously crept toward the deserted sect.
• Chun Xiaobai struggled to shake his pursuers and activated his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye while fleeing.

Chun Xiaobai spotted Crow Daoist near the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect and used him to cover his escape, leaving Crow surrounded by the sect’s cultivators. Hua Yurong recognized Crow and accused him of helping the little bandit frame the sect.

• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and spotted Crow Daoist sneaking toward the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect.
• Crow Daoist sensed powerful cultivators approaching and hid, while Chun Xiaobai mistook him for a master who could cover his retreat.
• Chun Xiaobai shouted that Crow should hold off the sect while he fetched reinforcements, then ran away.
• The Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s cultivators surrounded Crow, and Hua Yurong recognized him as Crow Daoist, an Elder of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• Hua Yurong accused Crow of being the Corpse Cleaners’ Boss and framing the sect, while Crow denied knowing Chun Xiaobai.

Chun Xiaobai escaped the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s pursuit and slipped into Ten Thousand Flowers City, where his companions had been anxiously waiting. He reunited with them at the inn, battered and bruised but boasting that no one could catch him.

• Crow Daoist tricked Hua Yurong into looking away and fled, drawing the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elders after him.
• Chun Xiaobai rested two thousand li away, then headed to Ten Thousand Flowers City and entered past the sect’s guards.
• At the inn, Bai Jin'er, Fang Yuan, and Bai Yutang worried that Chun Xiaobai had not returned, while Lu Qingshan urged them to give up waiting.
• Chun Xiaobai burst into the room, startling Lu Qingshan and relieving his companions when they recognized him.
• Bai Jin'er tried to embrace Chun Xiaobai, but he held her back and reacted irritably when Lu Qingshan joked about his ordeal.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions divided the spirit stones Wang Luan had given them, then left the inn for the city gates. Wang Luan and several Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elders arrived to see them off while secretly wondering whether the envoys had learned of the sect’s collusion with Demon Cultivators.

• Chun Xiaobai claimed that he had fallen and handed over ten billion spirit stones, then learned that Wang Luan had given the group twenty billion for tea.
• Bai Jin'er, Fang Yuan, and Bai Yutang confronted Lu Qingshan over his complaints, and Chun Xiaobai ordered the twenty billion divided equally among the four companions.
• Bai Jin'er split the spirit stones into four five-billion shares, and Lu Qingshan eagerly took one before thanking Chun Xiaobai.
• Lu Qingshan checked the area around the inn and led Chun Xiaobai and the others, disguised in Emperor Pavilion armor, toward the city gates.
• Wang Luan and several Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elders approached to see the envoys off, while Bai Yutang challenged Wang Luan about his intentions.

Lu Qingshan and his companions escaped Ten Thousand Flowers City after impersonating Emperor Pavilion Envoys, leaving the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect worried that their secret had been exposed and their lifeline compromised. The group reached a city near the Azure Cloud Sect and spent their spirit stones freely, while Chun Xiaobai prepared to test a newly purchased Magical Treasure.

• Wang Luan noticed that five people had left Ten Thousand Flowers City, and the swollen-faced man among them seemed familiar to him.
• Hall Master Liu suspected the five were frauds, but Hua Yurong silenced her, and the elders abandoned the idea of investigating the dangerous impersonation.
• Hall Master Liu warned Wang Luan that the Little Bandit held the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect's lifeline, and Wang Luan decided that the sect would move and change its name.
• Chun Xiaobai and his companions reached a city near the Azure Cloud Sect without being pursued, confirming that their impersonation had not been exposed.
• Lu Qingshan filled five Storage Rings with purchases, while Chun Xiaobai spent two hundred million spirit stones on two earth-tier Magical Treasures.
• Chun Xiaobai sat in the inn and prepared to test his Martial God Art on a lower earth-tier Long Sword.

Chun Xiaobai tested how the Martial God Art absorbed spiritual essence and concluded that he needed greater strength to expand his schemes. Lu Qingshan and the others persuaded him to launch another job, and Lu Qingshan presented a register of more than three hundred Eastern Region sects, beginning with the Spirit Origin Sect.

• Chun Xiaobai drained spiritual essence from a long sword and fifty million spirit stones, confirming that magical artifacts provided a more effective source.
• Chun Xiaobai reflected that he lacked the strength to pursue bigger opportunities and began preparing to cultivate further.
• Lu Qingshan urged Chun Xiaobai to launch another job, and Bai Yutang, Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan agreed.
• Bai Jin'er warned that their fake Emperor Pavilion identity might be exposed, so they needed to profit while it still protected them.
• Lu Qingshan gave Chun Xiaobai a register listing more than three hundred sects and their wealth and alleged misdeeds.
• Lu Qingshan identified the Spirit Origin Sect as a target, accusing it of forcibly extracting others' origins to cultivate an acquired divine body.

After debating the hypocrisy of the so-called righteous sects, Chun Xiaobai decided his crew needed more capable members after their dangerous trip to the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect. He tasked Lu Qingshan with finding trustworthy, tight-lipped experts to recruit.

• Lu Qingshan accused the Spirit Origin Sect of secretly draining chosen ones' origin essence, and Bai Jin'er compared its actions to those of demons.
• Bai Yutang challenged Lu Qingshan, and Chun Xiaobai stopped their argument before Bai Jin'er suggested throwing both men out.
• Chun Xiaobai reflected that his crew was too small and weak to handle dangerous negotiations or protect him from powerful sects.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Lu Qingshan whether he knew strong, trustworthy friends, and Lu Qingshan realized he wanted to recruit backup.
• Lu Qingshan promised he knew plenty of experts through the Azure Cloud Sect, and Chun Xiaobai put him in charge of expanding the crew.

Chun Xiaobai’s group chose the Spirit Origin Sect as their next target and tasked Lu Qingshan with recruiting three powerful allies. Lu Qingshan returned to the Azure Cloud Sect, handed out gifts to female disciples, and began considering which elders to recruit.

• Chun Xiaobai selected the nearby Spirit Origin Sect as the group’s next target and told Lu Qingshan to recruit three reliable experts for a billion spirit stones each.
• Lu Qingshan hurried back to the Azure Cloud Sect, hoping to recruit experts and benefit from referral commissions.
• Lu Qingshan gave Yao Yao a mystic-tier Magical Artifact, and she suspected he was a spy and ran to report him to the Sect Disciplinary Hall.
• Lu Qingshan gave away ten mystic-tier Magical Artifacts to female disciples while ignoring the male disciples he passed.
• Lu Qingshan returned to his Cave Abode and wondered which elders he could recruit, despite his poor reputation among them.

Lu Qingshan decided to recruit five Grand Supreme Elders for Chun Xiaobai’s dangerous Demonic Artifact-selling venture, hiding its true purpose until they were committed. He tried to visit Zhang Xuanhe with a rare Realm-Breaking Pill, but Zhang mistook the gift for a taunt and blamed the Sect Master for indulging Lu Qingshan.

• Lu Qingshan rejected asking his old friends and chose to recruit powerful Grand Supreme Elders without telling them the real purpose of the trip.
• Lu Qingshan selected five candidates, including Zhang Xuanhe and Elder Zhou, and went to Heaven Grotto Heavens to approach Zhang.
• Zhang Xuanhe’s attendant claimed Zhang was absent, though Lu Qingshan believed he was inside the cave abode.
• Lu Qingshan gave the attendant a fourth-tier Realm-Breaking Pill to deliver to Zhang as a reward.
• Zhang Xuanhe received the pill, grew furious, and accused Lu Qingshan of flaunting a pill he had wheedled from the Sect Master.

Lu Qingshan visited Zhang Xuanhe and gave him Tier Four Elixirs worth twenty million spirit stones, prompting Zhang to suspect he had sold a sect treasure. After Lu explained he had earned the money on a business trip, Zhang eagerly asked to join his next venture.

• Zhang Xuanhe pocketed the Tier Four Realm-Breaking Pill and hurried out to greet Lu Qingshan.
• Lu Qingshan showed Zhang a tableful of Tier Four Elixirs and told him to take them.
• Zhang accused Lu of selling a Sect-Towning Treasure, but Lu denied it and said he had earned the spirit stones through business.
• Lu offered Zhang a chance to join his next trip, and Zhang grabbed his arm and asked to come along.

Lu Qingshan recruited Zhang Xuanhe for a mysterious job by offering him five hundred million spirit stones, while hiding what the work involved. He then went to seek out Zhou Qingyi, who still held a grudge against him over a love letter delivered eight hundred years earlier.

• Lu Qingshan agreed to bring Zhang Xuanhe along for a job, offering him five hundred million spirit stones per assignment.
• Zhang Xuanhe accepted eagerly, then grew suspicious when Lu Qingshan only described the work as helping someone hold the fort.
• Lu Qingshan told Zhang Xuanhe to prepare his magical artifacts and said the job was not yet confirmed, prompting Zhang Xuanhe to ready himself and wonder if they would attack the Emperor Pavilion.
• Lu Qingshan went to Elder Zhou, also known as Zhou Qingyi, whose old grudge against him began when she mistook a love letter he delivered for one he had written himself.

Lu Qingshan visited Zhou Qingyi with expensive Beauty-Nourishing Pills, but she mistook his gift for proof that he had romantic feelings for her and grew angry when he called her old. He finally revealed that he had come to ask her to accompany him and keep things under control.

• Lu Qingshan recalled how Zhou Qingyi had humiliated him and explained that he had come bearing spirit stones to regain face and complete Chun Xiaobai's task.
• Zhou Qingyi accepted Lu Qingshan's gift and discovered that the vial held five valuable Fifth-tier Beauty-Nourishing Pills.
• Zhou Qingyi took the pills as an insult about her age and appearance, then concluded that Lu Qingshan had been pining after her.
• Lu Qingshan denied having improper intentions and worsened matters by saying Zhou Qingyi was getting old and had wrinkles.
• As Zhou Qingyi raised her hand to strike him, Lu Qingshan revealed that he wanted her to come out with him and help keep things under control.