Chapter Summaries

Chun Xiaobai gained the upper hand against Zhao Wuyuan by exploiting his swordwork and revealing a Blade Soul, but Zhao Wuyuan attacked with spiritual energy and Elder Gu intervened to stop Chun’s counterstrike. The chapter ended with Zhao Wuyuan exploiting Chun’s confusion to thrust at his throat.

• Chun Xiaobai avoided Zhao Wuyuan’s opening sword strikes and recognized that Zhao’s strength lay in controlling his blade.
• Chun Xiaobai read the footwork behind Zhao Wuyuan’s Star-Shattering Sword Art and struck him hard enough to make him spit blood.
• Gu Changfeng recognized Chun Xiaobai’s strike as proof that he possessed a Blade Soul, stunning the disciples and prompting Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan to cheer.
• Zhao Wuyuan gathered spiritual energy onto his sword and charged Chun Xiaobai with a lethal attack.
• A mysterious tap slowed Zhao Wuyuan’s sword in Chun Xiaobai’s eyes, but Gu Changfeng blocked Chun’s counterstrike with Sword Intent.
• Zhao Wuyuan seized Chun Xiaobai’s moment of confusion and thrust his sword toward Chun’s throat.

Chun Xiaobai defeated Zhao Wuyuan with one strike, and Gu Changfeng praised his swordsmanship while concealing the full extent of his ability. As Chun Xiaobai tried to keep his identity hidden, he invited Bai Jin'er to his cave residence under the pretense of giving her spare pills.

• Elder Gu stopped Zhao Wuyuan's attack and declared the match over, saying Chun Xiaobai's swordsmanship had reached the pinnacle of perfection.
• The crowd learned that Chun Xiaobai had defeated Zhao Wuyuan with one strike, while Gu Changfeng chose not to reveal his blade soul.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er praised Chun Xiaobai as they left the arena, and Chun Xiaobai hurried them away to avoid drawing more attention.
• At Green Bamboo Peak, Wu Liang heard of Chun Xiaobai's victory and was grateful Fang Yuan had introduced him to such a powerful senior brother.
• Bai Jin'er prepared to leave for her residence, but Chun Xiaobai invited her to his cave to take his spare pills, and she reluctantly agreed.

Chun Xiaobai brought Bai Jin'er to his summit courtyard, where he gave her pills and revealed that he had not yet drawn qi into his body. Bai Jin'er realized he was the chore disciple she had met before and confronted him in terror.

• Fang Yuan accepted Bai Jin'er’s agreement to Chun Xiaobai’s offer and returned to his nearby cave abode.
• Chun Xiaobai had Bai Jin'er activate the courtyard arrays, then took back the Formation Talisman to prevent her from leaving easily.
• Chun Xiaobai gave Bai Jin'er fifty Spirit-Gathering Pills, then swallowed over a hundred Qi-Restoring Pills without suffering harm.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Bai Jin'er to teach him how to draw qi into his body, leaving her shocked that he had defeated powerful cultivators without beginning cultivation.
• Bai Jin'er recognized Chun Xiaobai as the chore disciple and pointed at him in terror.

Chun Xiaobai revealed his bandit identity to Bai Jin'er and made her promise to keep it secret, then asked her to teach him how to draw spiritual energy into his body. He repeatedly fell asleep while trying to meditate, leaving him wondering whether Bai Jin'er had taught him a hypnosis technique.

• Chun Xiaobai admitted to Bai Jin'er that he was the bandit king and warned her not to expose him, revealing that he had stolen the Foundation Establishment Pill she took.
• Bai Jin'er feared being implicated in Chun Xiaobai's crimes, but he promised not to report her as long as she kept his identity secret.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Bai Jin'er to explain how to draw spiritual energy into his body, and she taught him to clear his mind and focus between his eyebrows.
• Chun Xiaobai tried meditating with spirit stones but repeatedly fell asleep, even after Bai Jin'er gave him further instructions.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Bai Jin'er whether she was teaching him a hypnosis technique instead of a cultivation method.

Chun Xiaobai failed to sense spiritual qi despite Bai Jin'er’s careful instruction, then discovered he could trigger a powerful state that sharpened his senses and enhanced his strength. The state left him dizzy and ravenously hungry, and he wondered whether a special physique had awakened.

• Bai Jin'er told Chun Xiaobai that even the slowest disciples sensed spiritual qi within three days, but he still could not sense any.
• Bai Jin'er worried the Disciplinary Hall would discover Chun Xiaobai’s unauthorized presence in the Outer Sect and resolved to persuade him to leave once he entered the Dao.
• Chun Xiaobai struggled to understand why meditation made him drowsy and searched for the cause of the pressure he had felt in his head.
• Chun Xiaobai imagined defending himself against Zhao Wuyuan, triggering the pressure and suddenly perceiving his surroundings with heightened clarity while gaining extraordinary strength and speed.
• Chun Xiaobai collapsed when the state ended, ate pills to recover from intense hunger and weakness, and suspected that a special physique had awakened.

Chun Xiaobai discovered he could cultivate by crushing spirit stones into water and using his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to guide the energy through his body. He successfully tempered himself and left the chapter celebrating his first ranged spiritual attack.

• Chun Xiaobai realized his rampage state might have activated because his strength had grown, but worried about its heavy energy demands.
• Chun Xiaobai crushed a spirit stone into tea, drank it, and sensed warm energy in his abdomen through his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye.
• Chun Xiaobai studied the Azure Cloud Manual and learned to guide the energy through his body by focusing his thoughts on its glow.
• Chun Xiaobai drank water mixed with five hundred crushed spirit stones and pushed the energy through his muscles, blood, and meridians to temper his body.
• Chun Xiaobai gathered the energy in his right arm and punched a hole through the cultivation chamber wall with a ranged spiritual attack.

After reaching the first layer of Qi Refining by spending eleven hundred spirit stones, Chun Xiaobai tested his Rampage state and was transported to a sealed copper-colored space. There, he found walls covered with martial arts illustrations and unreadable symbols.

• Chun Xiaobai used five hundred spirit stones to reach the first layer of Qi Refining and shattered a courtyard rockery with a punch.
• Chun Xiaobai realized his strength recovered naturally between punches, but cultivating had cost him over a hundred times more spirit stones than it did ordinary disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai activated Rampage mode and suddenly found himself inside a windowless copper-colored space.
• Chun Xiaobai examined the walls and found illustrations of finger, palm, kicking, and fist techniques.
• Chun Xiaobai reached the center of the space and found a wall covered in symbols he could not read.

After memorizing the Martial God Art in a mysterious space, Chun Xiaobai returned to the courtyard and discovered that entering it had drained his strength, though time had passed much more slowly inside. He suspected the Purple-Gold Token was connected to the space and resolved to grow stronger before the woman in red could make use of him.

• Chun Xiaobai returned to the wall and found that memorizing its symbols translated them into the words “Martial God Art.”
• He memorized the entire technique, realized it belonged to a discipline unlike immortal cultivation or familiar martial arts, and chose not to practice it yet.
• Chun Xiaobai was expelled from the mysterious space and, severely weakened, swallowed many pills before using his last two hundred spirit stones to recover his strength.
• He realized only two or three minutes had passed outside during his nearly two hours in the space and suspected the Purple-Gold Token was its key.
• Chun Xiaobai concluded that reaching the first layer of Qi Refining had let him enter the space, then feared the woman in red was fattening him up for a future betrayal and resolved to grow stronger.

Chun Xiaobai studied the Martial God Manual and discovered that combining it with his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye let him refine treasures' source essence, advancing to the second level of Blood Refining. He left his courtyard to face a crowd led by an arrogant Outer Sect disciple, Zhao Wuyuan, and two enforcement disciples, fearing Bai Jin'er had reported him.

• Chun Xiaobai repaired the hole in his cultivation room with door panels before studying the Martial God Manual.
• Chun Xiaobai learned the manual followed a body-refining path and that he had already entered the first level of Blood Refining.
• Chun Xiaobai found that absorbing ambient power was too slow and complained that advancing would take years.
• Chun Xiaobai swallowed two medicinal herbs, used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to guide their source essence through his body, and reached the second level of Blood Refining.
• Chun Xiaobai realized his divine eye supplied the sensing ability the manual lacked and celebrated his talent.
• Chun Xiaobai found a crowd outside his courtyard, including Zhao Wuyuan and two enforcement disciples, and worried that Bai Jin'er had reported him.

Chun Xiaobai faced Cheng Haoxuan in a sect-sanctioned challenge over his cave abode and persuaded him to wager his entire fortune as well. After both disciples handed their Storage Bags to Fang Yuan, they prepared to fight, and Chun Xiaobai checked that the challenge had no rules beyond preventing deaths.

• A dark-faced disciple told Chun Xiaobai that Cheng Haoxuan had come to challenge him for his cave abode, while Zhao Wuyuan watched from the crowd.
• Chun Xiaobai asked whether he could refuse, then proposed a wager to make the challenge more serious.
• Chun Xiaobai offered his entire fortune, and Cheng Haoxuan accepted and put his Storage Bag up as well.
• Chun Xiaobai handed his Storage Bag to Fang Yuan, and Cheng Haoxuan handed over his own before they took their places to fight.
• Chun Xiaobai asked the Disciplinary Hall disciples about compensation and the challenge rules, learning that anything was allowed as long as no one died.

Chun Xiaobai defeated Cheng Haoxuan with a trick and defended the win by pointing out that the sect’s challenge rules did not forbid sneak attacks. After returning to Fang Yuan’s cave abode, Chun Xiaobai learned that Cheng Haoxuan had ranked ninety-fifth among the Outer Sect’s strongest disciples.

• Chun Xiaobai distracted Cheng Haoxuan by shouting that the Sect Master had arrived, then knocked him unconscious from behind.
• Chun Xiaobai claimed the victory was fair because the challenge rules did not prohibit sneak attacks, and the Disciplinary Disciple confirmed this.
• Zhao Wuyuan helped the unconscious Cheng Haoxuan down the mountain and declined Chun Xiaobai’s challenge to stake everything they owned.
• Chun Xiaobai and Fang Yuan entered Fang Yuan’s cave abode, where Fang Yuan praised Chun Xiaobai’s tactics and explained the Outer Sect Genius Disciple Ranking.
• Chun Xiaobai learned that Cheng Haoxuan had held ninety-fifth place for over three months, then asked Fang Yuan about his own ranking.

Chun Xiaobai rewarded Fang Yuan with valuable cultivation manuals and made him his second-in-command. After Fang Yuan left, Chun Xiaobai searched the Storage Bag he had won, found a fortune in supplies, and discovered he could refine origin qi from spirit stones with the Martial God Art.

• Chun Xiaobai gave Fang Yuan three mid-grade Yellow Tier manuals, and Fang Yuan gratefully accepted his offer to serve as second-in-command.
• Fang Yuan left Chun Xiaobai’s courtyard, convinced he had finally found the benefactor his father had told him to seek.
• Chun Xiaobai opened the Storage Bag he had won and found pills, swords, spirit herbs, manuals, and exactly six thousand five hundred spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and Martial God Art to draw origin qi from the spirit stones and refine it into his body.

Chun Xiaobai spent thousands of spirit stones and a precious spirit herb to reach fourth blood refining, then faced Shi Lei, a ranked disciple who came to challenge him. The chapter ended with Chun Xiaobai acting terrified after learning Shi Lei ranked eightieth on the Outer Sect's Genius Disciple Ranking.

• Chun Xiaobai used two thousand spirit stones to reach third blood refining, then spent another four thousand five hundred and still fell short of the next breakthrough.
• Chun Xiaobai ate a spirit herb and endured two hours of agony as he opened his kidneys, reaching fourth qi refinement and feeling his strength surge.
• Chun Xiaobai's punch shattered his repaired wall, and he realized he could now thrash Zhao Wuyuan; after a day and night of cultivation, he washed away the impurities from his body.
• Chun Xiaobai opened his gate to find Shi Lei, Cheng Haoxuan, Zhao Wuyuan, and a crowd of spectators waiting outside.
• A disciple announced that Shi Lei ranked eightieth on the Outer Sect's Genius Disciple Ranking and third on the Sword Cultivator Ranking, and Chun Xiaobai pretended to be terrified.

Chun Xiaobai accepted Shi Lei’s swordsmanship challenge after Shi Lei wagered his Storage Bag, then brought Bai Jin'er into it by handing her both contestants’ bags to hold. The duel began with Chun Xiaobai charging at Shi Lei with a two-handed overhead strike, while Shi Lei met him with Sword Qi.

• Shi Lei demanded Chun Xiaobai surrender his Formation Talisman and return the Storage Bag he had won from Cheng Haoxuan, but Chun Xiaobai surrendered only the Formation Talisman.
• Shi Lei offered to challenge Chun Xiaobai for the Storage Bag and promised to protect him in the Outer Sect, wagering all the contents of his own Storage Bag if he lost.
• Chun Xiaobai agreed after the Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye revealed that Shi Lei’s Storage Bag held valuable items.
• Chun Xiaobai called Bai Jin'er over and gave her both Storage Bags to hold before the duel.
• Chun Xiaobai charged Shi Lei with a two-handed overhead sword strike, and Shi Lei countered with a streak of Sword Qi.

Chun Xiaobai defeated Shi Lei in a sword match by baiting him with his sword and then overwhelming him with punches, winning the Cave Abode and Storage Bags. After entering the Cave Abode, he announced that he would climb the Outer Sect Disciple Genius Ranking and gave Fang Yuan cultivation manuals as rewards.

• Chun Xiaobai exchanged blows with Shi Lei, then knocked his sword away and used a barrage of punches to defeat him.
• Chun Xiaobai denied cheating when the spectators accused him of fighting unfairly, and Zhao Wuyuan and Cheng Haoxuan recognized his trickery.
• Chun Xiaobai took the Storage Bags, invited further challengers, then had Bai Jin'er open the Cave Abode's defensive array.
• Fang Yuan praised Chun Xiaobai for reaching eightieth place on the Outer Sect Disciple Genius Ranking, while Bai Jin'er realized he acted like a bandit king.
• Chun Xiaobai said he would challenge the top-ranked disciples and gave Fang Yuan twenty cultivation manuals looted from Cheng Haoxuan.

Chun Xiaobai rewarded Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan with valuable cultivation manuals, then sorted his spoils and spent five thousand spirit stones trying to advance his Blood Refining cultivation. He discovered how costly further breakthroughs would be and began cultivating Divine Sense to improve his hunt for targets and investigate the treasure in his head.

• Chun Xiaobai gave Bai Jin'er cultivation manuals worth thousands of spirit stones, and Fang Yuan urged her to accept them as a reward for serving their boss.
• Chun Xiaobai inspected his haul from the ranked disciple, found spirit stones, pills, materials, and spirit herbs, and sorted the items into Storage Bags.
• Chun Xiaobai crushed five thousand spirit stones to cultivate, while Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er absorbed the Spiritual Qi that filled the courtyard.
• Chun Xiaobai found that the spirit stones barely advanced his cultivation and calculated that reaching the fifth level of Blood Refining would cost fifty thousand spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai took out the Spirit-Sensing Art and began cultivating Divine Sense.

Chun Xiaobai discovered that his divine sense could reach far beyond normal limits and penetrate defenses, then used a spirit herb and the Martial God Art to strengthen it. He found a six-story bronze Little Tower in his sea of consciousness and entered its mysterious space, where the Martial God Art had disappeared.

• Chun Xiaobai extended his divine sense through the peak master's defenses and glimpsed a woman bathing, but her counterattack sent his divine sense rushing back and left him in pain.
• Chun Xiaobai swallowed a spirit herb and used the Martial God Art to nourish his sea of consciousness, strengthening his divine sense.
• Chun Xiaobai examined his sea of consciousness and discovered an ancient six-story Little Tower at its center.
• Chun Xiaobai suspected the woman in red wanted the Little Tower and vowed to become strong enough to defeat her within ten years.
• Chun Xiaobai entered the mysterious space inside the Little Tower and found that the Martial God Art was gone.

Chun Xiaobai learned the Heaven-Rending Hand and Heaven-Treading Steps in the little tower before his time inside ran out. Back in the cultivation chamber, he heard that the peak master had summoned Green Bamboo Peak’s disciples and feared she was hunting him for peeping.

• Chun Xiaobai found a portrait resembling the woman in red and resolved to grow strong enough to withstand her.
• He learned the first level of Heaven-Rending Hand by copying its diagrams, gaining techniques for dismantling bodies and locating the nodes in mechanisms and formations.
• Chun Xiaobai studied the three moves of Heaven-Treading Steps, including stealthy movement, a cloud ladder, and Shrinking Land to Inches.
• When his time in the little tower ran out, Chun Xiaobai returned to the cultivation chamber and drank thirty bottles to recover his strength.
• Fang Yuan told Chun Xiaobai that the peak master had summoned all Green Bamboo Peak disciples to the Peak Master Hall, and Chun Xiaobai worried she had discovered his peeping.

Chun Xiaobai went with Fang Yuan to meet Green Bamboo Peak’s Peak Master, Yun Huoyue, while Bai Jin'er guarded his Cave Abode. Yun Huoyue ordered the gathered disciples to carve a rabbit from a giant radish, leaving Chun Xiaobai wary of her erratic reputation.

• Chun Xiaobai used Fang Yuan’s message from the Peak Master as an excuse to hurry to the gathering, then left Bai Jin'er to guard his Cave Abode.
• Bai Jin'er agreed to guard Chun Xiaobai’s door and reflected that he seemed more approachable than the sect’s arrogant geniuses.
• Fang Yuan told Chun Xiaobai that Yun Huoyue had once been an Inner Sect genius before offending an important figure and suffering a damaged cultivation foundation and mental state.
• Chun Xiaobai and Fang Yuan reached the Martial Arts Arena, where Chun Xiaobai noticed most of the gathered disciples were at the eighth or ninth level of Qi Refining and learned Fang Yuan was only guarding someone else’s Cave Abode.
• Yun Huoyue arrived, noticed Chun Xiaobai staring at her, and placed a giant radish and broadsword on a table.
• Yun Huoyue told the disciples to line up and carve a rabbit from the radish because she wanted to eat rabbit.

Yun Huoyue offered a Foundation Establishment Pill to the disciple who could impress her with a carved radish rabbit, dismissing nearly everyone who tried. Chun Xiaobai carved a family of rabbits and then an affectionate pair, after which Yun Huoyue dismissed the remaining disciples but ordered him to stay.

• Yun Huoyue promised a Foundation Establishment Pill to whoever carved a rabbit that pleased her and sent away disciples who showed too much excitement or disinterest.
• Yun Huoyue dismissed disciple after disciple, including skilled carvers whose lifelike rabbits failed to satisfy her.
• Yun Huoyue called Chun Xiaobai forward, and he carved a group of rabbits representing a family.
• Chun Xiaobai carved a pair of rabbits snuggling together, and Yun Huoyue's killing intent subsided.
• Yun Huoyue ordered the remaining disciples to leave but told Chun Xiaobai to stay.