Chapter Summaries

Chun Xiaobai dismissed the danger of their increasingly difficult raids and decided to keep impersonating Emperor Pavilion Envoys to amass more wealth. After Zhang Xuanhe explained why the sects they had targeted were on high alert, the group looked ahead to the Eastern Region’s richer heartland and its more powerful sects.

• Chun Xiaobai warned the group that their recent targets had tightened security, while Bai Jin'er urged him to stop their raids.
• Chun Xiaobai insisted they should keep earning money before the Emperor Pavilion discovered their scheme.
• Zhang Xuanhe explained that the sects in the poorer provinces had fortified themselves against powerful sects from the Eastern Region’s heartland, not against the group.
• Bai Yutang and Chun Xiaobai grew eager to target wealthier sects farther ahead, and Chun Xiaobai told the others to choose their next target.

Chun Xiaobai and the others set out to rob the Heavenly Gang Sect after learning it had repeatedly insulted the Azure Cloud Sect. Their staged raid went awry when a sect elder recognized their demonic artifact, and a crowd of Heavenly Gang Sect elders quickly surrounded them.

• Zhang Xuanhe chose the Heavenly Gang Sect because it was on their route and had long looked down on the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Chun Xiaobai agreed to target the sect, and Bai Jin'er eagerly joined once she heard there might be wealthy targets.
• The ten disguised their auras, donned Emperor Pavilion Armor, and slipped into the Heavenly Gang Sect, where Chun Xiaobai found the quiet interior suspicious.
• Zhang Xuanhe planted a demonic longsword at a hall and accused the elder who emerged of being a demon.
• The elder recognized the Demonic Artifact, and Heavenly Gang Sect elders rushed in from every direction, surrounding Chun Xiaobai and his companions.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions faced Gu Chengfeng and the Heavenly Gang Sect elders, who challenged their claim to be Emperor Pavilion Envoys. Chun Xiaobai produced the Command Token given to him by the woman in red to prove his credentials.

• Gu Chengfeng arrived with more than thirty thousand Heavenly Gang Sect elders and questioned whether Chun Xiaobai's group were Emperor Pavilion Envoys.
• Bai Yutang claimed they looked the part, but Gu Changfeng said their armor gave them away as fakes.
• Chun Xiaobai threatened Gu Changfeng with the Demonic Artifact, making the elders uneasy about opposing the supposed Envoys.
• Gu Chengfeng demanded credentials, leaving Lu Qingshan and Zhang Xuanhe's companions alarmed.
• Chun Xiaobai took out the Command Token the woman in red had given him.

Chun Xiaobai used an Emperor Pavilion token to make Gu Chengfeng and the Heavenly Gang Sect elders submit, but Lu Qingshan accused Zhang Kui of being a demon cultivator despite his past service capturing one. The chapter ends with Lu Qingshan suspecting the Heavenly Gang Sect itself is a Demon Sect, leaving Gu Chengfeng horrified.

• Chun Xiaobai flashed his token, and Gu Chengfeng recognized the Emperor Pavilion mark and knelt with the Heavenly Gang Sect elders.
• Lu Qingshan confronted Gu Chengfeng and demanded that he look at Zhang Kui, whom the group suspected of being a demon cultivator.
• Gu Chengfeng explained that Zhang Kui had fought and captured a demon three hundred years earlier, damaging his cultivation in the process.
• Lu Qingshan twisted Zhang Kui's history into evidence that he had used his service to conceal his identity as a demon cultivator.
• Gu Chengfeng defended Zhang Kui, fearing the accusation would bring disaster upon the Heavenly Gang Sect.
• Lu Qingshan accused Gu Chengfeng of shielding a demon and declared that the Heavenly Gang Sect might be a Demon Sect in disguise.

Gu Chengfeng concluded that the Emperor Pavilion had destroyed other sects for consorting with demons and decided the Heavenly Gang Sect had no chance of surviving an investigation. He led the sect’s elders in attacking the Emperor Pavilion envoys, and Chun Xiaobai fled before turning back after remembering the Third Boss and the others were still inside.

• Gu Chengfeng suspected the Emperor Pavilion had secretly erased more than a dozen Eastern Region sects accused of dealing with demons.
• Chun Xiaobai noticed Gu Chengfeng and the elders secretly communicating and preparing to fight, while Lu Qingshan mistakenly believed they had submitted.
• Gu Chengfeng ordered the Heavenly Gang Sect’s elders to fight the envoys to the death, and they surged forward with killing intent.
• Chun Xiaobai tried to flee as the elders attacked Zhang Xuanhe and his four companions, whose defensive treasures absorbed the strike; Bai Jin'er and her companions were also blasted away and injured.
• Chun Xiaobai escaped hundreds of miles, then remembered the Third Boss and the others were still inside the Heavenly Gang Sect and charged back.

Chun Xiaobai returned to help his companions escape, then used the Martial God Tower to survive a devastating attack from dozens of Grand Supreme Elders. The elders tried to pursue Bai Jin'er and the others, but Chun Xiaobai reappeared behind them, apparently unharmed.

• Chun Xiaobai ordered Zhang Xuanhe and his four companions to turn back and cover the retreat, threatening to demand his spirit stones back if they refused.
• Chun Xiaobai found Bai Jin'er and escaped with her while Fang Yuan followed, but Gu Chengfeng and the elders attacked Zhang Xuanhe's group as they turned back.
• Dozens of pursuers surrounded Chun Xiaobai, Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan, so Chun Xiaobai told the other two to flee while he held them off.
• Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan joined Chun Xiaobai in using fifth-tier Swift Travel Talismans to escape, and the pursuers unleashed a combined attack on Chun Xiaobai.
• Chun Xiaobai vanished into the Martial God Tower as the attack struck, and the elders assumed he had been killed before turning to chase Bai Jin'er and the others.
• Chun Xiaobai reappeared behind the elders, brushing dust from himself and asking where they thought they were going.

Chun Xiaobai used the Martial God Tower to evade the Heavenly Gang Sect elders’ attacks while Bai Jin'er and the others escaped with talismans and treasures. Gu Chengfeng halted the pursuit and ordered the sect to flee, fearing the Emperor Pavilion’s response.

• Chun Xiaobai repeatedly vanished into the Martial God Tower to survive the elders’ combined attacks and buy time for his companions.
• Bai Jin'er and four others covered in soot used stacks of talismans to speed away as Gu Chengfeng led the elders in pursuit.
• Gu Chengfeng’s elders watched the five escape after they vanished, but he stopped his forces from chasing them farther.
• Gu Chengfeng ordered the Heavenly Gang Sect to gather its valuables, evacuate its disciples, and erase the sect’s records and traces.
• Gu Chengfeng silenced doubts about the envoys’ identities and insisted that the sect leave first rather than risk provoking them.

Chun Xiaobai was trapped inside the Martial God Tower while Heavenly Gang Sect elders guarded its exit, then found they had all left and feared they had captured the Third Boss. He reached the rendezvous point and found Bai Jin'er and the others alive, but battered, as Zhang Xuanhe began explaining how their negotiations had gone wrong.

• Gu Chengfeng and the Heavenly Gang Sect elders decided to relocate quickly rather than risk the sect’s two million lives after Chun Xiaobai exposed them.
• Chun Xiaobai replenished his spiritual power by consuming expensive spirit herbs while dozens of elders waited outside the Martial God Tower.
• Chun Xiaobai emerged from the tower and discovered the elders and Heavenly Gang Sect disciples had vanished, so he worried they had caught the Third Boss.
• Chun Xiaobai rushed to the rendezvous point and found Bai Jin'er, Zhang Xuanhe, Han Jiufeng, and the others battered but safe.
• Chun Xiaobai berated Zhang Xuanhe, who said Gu Chengfeng had already been on his knees before the situation turned against them.

After the deal with the Heavenly Gang Sect fell apart, Chun Xiaobai’s group blamed Lu Qingshan for provoking them, then beat him before Chun Xiaobai broke up the fight. The group worried the sect would search for them, but Chun Xiaobai reassured them that the Image Recording Stone could keep the sect quiet and scolded Zhang Xuanhe for being unreliable.

• Han Jiufeng and the others blamed Lu Qingshan for pushing Gu Chengfeng and his people into rebellion with his threats.
• Zhang Xuanhe, Sun Wujiu, Zhou Qingyi, and the others pinned Lu Qingshan down and beat him, while Bai Yutang, Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan joined in.
• Chun Xiaobai stopped the beating, and Lu Qingshan dropped his complaints when Chun Xiaobai offered to pay his medical expenses.
• Fang Yuan and the others worried the Heavenly Gang Sect would search for them, but Chun Xiaobai showed them the Image Recording Stone as leverage against the sect.
• Chun Xiaobai turned to Zhang Xuanhe and asked him to be more reliable next time.

After hearing that the Cold Abyss Sect’s disciples murdered rivals and seized their treasures in Secret Realms, Chun Xiaobai chose the sect as the group’s next target. The group prepared a quieter approach and studied the sect before setting out.

• Zhang Xuanhe suggested targeting the wealthy, secluded Cold Abyss Sect, and Sun Wujiu and Lu Qingshan described its disciples’ habit of killing other sects’ members inside Secret Realms.
• Chun Xiaobai learned that Sun Wujiu’s and Zhao Chenshan’s personal disciples had disappeared in a Secret Realm alongside Cold Abyss Sect disciples, who returned with other sects’ belongings.
• Chun Xiaobai declared that the Cold Abyss Sect would be their target and rejected Bai Jin’er’s request to rest before they went.
• The group studied the Cold Abyss Sect and planned to keep a low profile, speak little, and name their demands only at the crucial moment.

Chun Xiaobai and his group reached the wealthy, secluded Cold Abyss Sect and slipped into its rear mountain to search for treasure. Chun Xiaobai spotted an unusually powerful wealth aura near a grand hall, while the eerie cold around the group left Lu Qingshan uneasy.

• Chun Xiaobai led the group north to the Cold Abyss Sect after Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang finished tinkering.
• The group found no patrols near the sect and hid until nightfall before sneaking inside.
• The group felt an unsettling chill in the sect’s heart, though Chun Xiaobai felt unusually comfortable.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and saw few disciples but a great deal of wealth on the rear mountain.
• Chun Xiaobai fixed his attention on a distant grand hall as Lu Qingshan began to mention a familiar aura.

Chun Xiaobai and Zhang Xuanhe’s group tried to expose the Cold Abyss Sect, but discovered that its leaders and elders were demon cultivators and fled under attack. Chun Xiaobai escaped far ahead with Swift Travel Talismans, leaving Zhang Xuanhe and the others to cover his retreat.

• Zhang Xuanhe planted a demonic artifact on the hall’s door, but the old man who emerged confiscated it instead of raising an alarm.
• Zhang Xuanhe and Zhou Qingyi confronted the old man as Emperor Pavilion Envoys, prompting him to shatter a Black Jade Pendant and summon reinforcements.
• Li Tianxing, the Cold Abyss Sect’s Sect Master, recognized Zhang Xuanhe and ordered the elders to attack the group.
• Chun Xiaobai realized the sect was a demon den and fled with Bai Jin'er as Zhang Xuanhe and the others used armor and talismans to withstand the attack.
• Chun Xiaobai used Swift Travel Talismans to race hundreds of miles ahead while Zhang Xuanhe and the others were left behind to cover his retreat.

Fang Yuan, Bai Yutang, Chun Xiaobai, and the other Emperor Pavilion Envoys escaped the Cold Abyss Sect’s pursuit by burning through vast stores of treasures. Li Tianxing concluded their base had been exposed and ordered the sect to relocate, while Chun Xiaobai fled ten thousand li with Bai Jin'er.

• Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang outran the pursuers with Swift Travel Talismans, while Zhang Xuanhe and the other elders fell behind under attacks from Li Tianxing’s forces.
• Lu Qingshan used a Rare Treasure-grade Translocation Talisman to teleport three thousand li away, leaving the five elders to face the pursuing demons alone.
• Zhang Xuanhe and his four companions spent billions of spirit stones’ worth of treasures to survive the attacks, then destroyed a half-step Heaven Tier artifact to stop the demon cultivators’ chase.
• Li Tianxing recognized that the Envoys might be connected to the mysterious disappearance of sects and ordered the Cold Abyss Sect to gather its disciples, erase its traces, and relocate.
• Li Tianxing suspected the Envoys had found the sect by chance, while Chun Xiaobai carried Bai Jin'er ten thousand li away and nearly exhausted his spiritual power.

After escaping a demon sect, Chun Xiaobai reunited with his companions, who had been injured and infected with demonic qi by the demon cultivators. He discovered that the Martial God Art let him absorb the qi, and realized it could be worth five hundred million spirit stones in refined herbs.

• Chun Xiaobai escaped the Cold Abyss Sect with Bai Jin'er and met Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang, who lamented the two billion spirit stones they had spent on Swift Travel Talismans.
• Lu Qingshan arrived and blamed Zhang Xuanhe for leading them into the demon sect, but Zhang Xuanhe and the others soon appeared, badly injured and wreathed in demonic qi.
• Han Jiufeng and Zhao Chenshan explained that the demon cultivators' attacks had filled them with demonic qi that resisted their efforts to expel it and corrupted their spiritual power.
• Chun Xiaobai used the Martial God Art while touching Zhang Xuanhe and absorbed all the demonic qi from his body.
• Chun Xiaobai realized that absorbing the demonic qi was equivalent to refining five hundred million spirit stones' worth of spirit herbs.

Chun Xiaobai removed the demonic qi from his companions, who wondered whether he was a demon himself, then rejected their plan to report the Cold Abyss Sect to the Emperor Pavilion for a reward. He explained why their usual intimidation tactics had failed in the Eastern Region's Twelve Provinces, while his followers reaffirmed their trust in him as their leader.

• Chun Xiaobai absorbed the demonic qi from Zhou Qingyi and the others, prompting Lu Qingshan to ask whether he was a demon too.
• Bai Jin'er defended Chun Xiaobai, and he told the group to leave if they suspected him; they insisted they wanted to stay and recover their losses.
• Lu Qingshan proposed reporting the Cold Abyss Sect to the Emperor Pavilion for rewards, but Chun Xiaobai and the others argued that the plan was risky and less profitable than collecting hush money.
• Fang Yuan asked why the group had failed twice, and Chun Xiaobai explained that the powerful, ruthless sects of the Twelve Provinces would not submit easily to threats.
• Zhang Xuanhe and the others reflected on Chun Xiaobai's planning, fairness, and leadership, and felt honored to follow him.

After two failed schemes, Chun Xiaobai decided his group needed more powerful cultivators to intimidate their targets and ordered Lu Qingshan to recruit them. Lu Qingshan accepted the task and promised to find capable experts from the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Bai Jin'er cautiously suggested quitting, but Chun Xiaobai refused to abandon the chance to profit from the Twelve Provinces of the Eastern Region.
• Lu Qingshan praised Chun Xiaobai and was asked to recruit more powerful allies.
• Zhang Xuanhe objected that new recruits could leak their secrets or reduce their shares, while Lu Qingshan argued for bringing in more people.
• Chun Xiaobai explained that a larger force could have cowed the Heavenly Gang Sect and protected them from attack.
• Zhang Xuanhe, Sun Wujiu, and Zhou Qingyi offered to recruit experts, but Chun Xiaobai assigned the task to Lu Qingshan.
• Chun Xiaobai told Lu Qingshan to recruit strong, sharp-witted people, and Lu promised to find experts from the Azure Cloud Sect.

Lu Qingshan set off to recruit people from the Azure Cloud Sect while Chun Xiaobai and the others waited at their rendezvous point. Meanwhile, Ling Tianchen and the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance investigated the ruined Heavenly Gang Sect, finding signs of a major battle but no blood or clues explaining the disappearance of its people.

• Chun Xiaobai instructed Lu Qingshan to recruit people from the Azure Cloud Sect, and Lu Qingshan flew off after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The chapter noted that Bai Jin'er, Fang Yuan, and Bai Yutang had reached the Golden Core Realm, while Bai Jin'er aimed to become worthy of the Great King.
• Ling Tianchen led the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance to investigate the ruins of the Heavenly Gang Sect after nearly twenty sects had vanished overnight.
• The sect masters searched the ruins but found no useful clues, and Mu Qinglan pointed out clear signs of battle without any trace of blood.
• The Alliance members debated how a Spirit Transformation-level battle could have caused so much destruction without anyone apparently dying.

Mu Qinglan and Ling Tianchen’s alliance investigated the vanished Cold Abyss Sect and found evidence of a devastating battle, including traces of powerful talismans and a Heaven-Tier Magical Artifact. The sect’s millions of disciples, its master Li Tianxing, its spirit veins, and its facilities had all disappeared without leaving any auras, deepening the mystery.

• Ling Tianchen and the sect masters dismissed the idea that the Heavenly Gang Sect had fled, then received word that millions of Cold Abyss Sect disciples had vanished overnight.
• Ling Tianchen led the fleet to the Cold Abyss Sect, where the investigators found that every trace of aura had been concealed.
• Mu Qinglan identified lightning damage as the work of a Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talisman and followed the battle scars southeast.
• Mu Qinglan and the others found destruction caused by the self-detonation of a Heaven-Tier Magical Artifact and concluded that the Cold Abyss Sect had fought a powerful enemy.
• Mu Qinglan questioned how the sect could have fought back yet vanished entirely, and the group realized its people, spirit veins, and cultivation facilities were all gone.

While investigating the Cold Abyss Sect, Mu Qinglan connected the disappearances of twenty leading sects to a possible formation spanning the Eastern Region. The sect masters wanted to alert the Emperor Pavilion, but Mu Qinglan warned that it would not act until the threat unfolded.

• Mu Qinglan noted that the twenty vanished sects were provincial leaders and marked their locations on a map.
• Mu Qinglan and the sect masters saw that the locations formed an arc that might encircle the Eastern Region.
• Mu Qinglan proposed that a mysterious being was removing sects to use their sites and earth veins as foundations for a forbidden formation.
• The sect masters agreed the suspected formation could signal a grave conspiracy and called for the Emperor Pavilion to be informed.
• Mu Qinglan explained that the Emperor Pavilion only intervened to slay demons and vanquish devils, so it would not act before the conspiracy unfolded.

Ling Tianchen organized the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance to investigate the mysterious force destroying sects, ordering each sect to provide elders or spirit stones for the operation. Mu Qinglan headed to the Azure Cloud Sect to recruit members, while Lu Qingshan arrived there with a mission and wondered who should receive his heaven-defying opportunity.

• Ling Tianchen and the sect masters agreed to investigate the mysterious being themselves and set an ambush along its predicted route.
• Ling Tianchen issued an Alliance Venerable Order requiring each sect to send twenty Grand Supreme Elders or pay one hundred million spirit stones per missing elder.
• Mu Qinglan decided to send idle Grand Supreme Elders and piloted her sect's warship toward the Azure Cloud Sect to gather people for the operation.
• Lu Qingshan bought a half-step Heaven Tier flying boat and reached the Azure Cloud Sect in half a day.
• Lu Qingshan wondered who should receive his heaven-defying opportunity.