Chapter Summaries

Cangshan Daoist decided to bring Yun Huoyue to help Chun Xiaobai, while Mu Qinglan secretly followed Zhao Wuyuan and hundreds of Azure Cloud Sect elders toward Chun Xiaobai’s business meeting. After an exhausting pursuit across several provinces, Mu Qinglan ran out of pills and began falling behind the Flying Boat.

• Li Yuanqiu told Cangshan Daoist to recover while he discussed the deal with the Great King, and Cangshan Daoist decided to fetch Yun Huoyue from the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Mu Qinglan kept watch at the Azure Cloud Sect entrance, then spotted Zhao Wuyuan arriving in a half-step heaven-tier Flying Boat.
• Zhao Wuyuan gave five Half-Step Heaven-Tier Magical Artifacts to his Direct Disciples and led more than six hundred elders aboard the Flying Boat.
• Mu Qinglan followed the Flying Boat toward Chun Xiaobai’s meeting point without being noticed.
• The Flying Boat crossed several provinces at high speed, and Mu Qinglan exhausted her spirit stones and pills as the distance between them grew.

After losing Zhao Wuyuan again, Mu Qinglan spent five billion spirit stones on a Flying Boat so she could follow those poaching Azure Cloud Sect members. She tracked Cangshan Daoist and Yun Huoyue to an inn in Tianyuan City, but did not find the mastermind.

• Mu Qinglan failed to catch Zhao Wuyuan, so she bought a half-step heaven tier Flying Boat for five billion spirit stones.
• Mu Qinglan pursued Zhao Wuyuan again without finding him, then returned to the Azure Cloud Sect to watch the sect.
• Cangshan Daoist arrived at the sect and summoned Yun Huoyue, then led her away without letting her pack.
• Mu Qinglan followed Cangshan Daoist and Yun Huoyue in her new Flying Boat for three million li to Tianyuan City.
• Cangshan Daoist checked into the Immortal Gathering Pavilion inn, leaving Mu Qinglan without a meeting with the mastermind.

Mu Qinglan gave up watching Cangshan Daoist after realizing he and Yun Huoyue were only fortune-telling and buying pills. Meanwhile, Chun Xiaobai prepared to target the sacred lands, ordering his followers to find diviners and investigate their connections before making a move.

• Mu Qinglan watched Cangshan Daoist and Yun Huoyue at the inn, then returned to the Azure Cloud Sect when she realized they were not waiting for any mastermind.
• Chun Xiaobai recruited Zhao Wuyuan and six hundred others, appointed ten more Incense Masters, and became frustrated by soaring magical-artifact prices.
• Chun Xiaobai decided to pursue the sacred lands, and his elders agreed after Bai Jin'er called them cowards.
• Chun Xiaobai demanded that his followers find Divination Masters, and Li Yuanqiu remembered Cangshan Daoist at the Tianyuan City Inn.
• Chun Xiaobai summoned the Incense Masters and Bai Jin'er, then ordered them to investigate their contacts and learn about the sacred lands and their relationships.

Chun Xiaobai prepared his followers to pose as a new Emperor Pavilion force, ordering them to create rumors, make dark armor, and train in military discipline. The next morning, he continued drilling them while Ling Tianchen counted the profits he had earned at the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance.

• Chun Xiaobai ordered Li Qingfeng to have three thousand sets of dark Emperor-style armor made from his design.
• Chun Xiaobai distributed Demonic Artifacts and told the Incense Masters to plant them in deserted places to spread rumors of Demon Cultivators in the Eastern Region.
• Chun Xiaobai drilled more than two thousand followers in formations, posture, and marching, kicking anyone who broke discipline.
• Chun Xiaobai continued the training before dawn the next day.
• At the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance headquarters, Ling Tianchen counted the money he had earned over three months.

Ling Tianchen tried to keep the eerie menace going so he could collect more spirit stones, while Li Yuanqiu recruited Azure Cloud Sect elders before the group entered the Northern Twelve Provinces. Mu Qinglan followed him with her Flying Boat, but the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance interrupted her pursuit with another demand for troops.

• Ling Tianchen realized the eerie menace had stopped and ordered the sects to send ten more Grand Supreme Elders each, demanding money from those with no people left.
• Li Yuanqiu decided to recruit more Azure Cloud Sect members before reaching the Northern Twelve Provinces, where Chun Xiaobai would stop admitting strangers.
• Mu Qinglan spotted Li Yuanqiu near her sect and concealed herself, determined to follow him after losing five billion spirit stones on a Flying Boat.
• Li Yuanqiu summoned an elder from the sect, and more than three hundred elders gathered before boarding his Half-Step Heaven Tier Flying Boat.
• Mu Qinglan followed the departing group in her concealed Flying Boat after replying “Scram!” to the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance's demand for more troops.

Mu Qinglan followed Li Yuanqiu across several provinces and discovered that he had brought Azure Cloud Sect elders to Chun Xiaobai, where they were being drilled in formation. She watched in alarm as the elders moved in perfect unison, unsure what Chun Xiaobai had done to them.

• Mu Qinglan tailed Li Yuanqiu from Cloud Province through the Central Twelve Provinces, fearing the faction he sought might be a Sacred Land.
• Li Yuanqiu arrived at Chun Xiaobai's rendezvous, where Bai Jin'er welcomed him and Li Qingfeng complained about being kicked during drills.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang to keep drilling the assembled people and then rested beneath a tree.
• Mu Qinglan secretly reached the mountaintop and found two thousand Azure Cloud Sect elders marching in strict formation.
• The elders turned and stamped their feet in unison, leaving Mu Qinglan trembling and wondering whether their divine souls had been controlled.

Mu Qinglan found more than two thousand Azure Cloud Sect elders drilling in perfect formation and mistook their plans for a journey to the Sacred Land. After Chun Xiaobai told her to train with the newcomers, she disguised herself and joined them, intending to confront the person she believed had poached her sect members.

• Mu Qinglan watched the Azure Cloud Sect elders march in precise formation and searched the grounds for the person who had poached members of her sect.
• She recognized Chun Xiaobai, who mistook her for a newcomer and told her to drill before they started work.
• Chun Xiaobai explained that the group was training to make a fortune at the Sacred Land, and Mu Qinglan concluded that the real culprit was there.
• Mu Qinglan covered her face to hide her identity and headed toward the drilling ground.

Mu Qinglan disguised herself to infiltrate a marching formation and find the mastermind behind her sect’s troubles. Meanwhile, Yun Huoyue arrived with Cangshan Daoist and Li Yuanqiu, then tried to win over Chun Xiaobai, who reacted with alarm to her advances.

• Mu Qinglan used her veil to hide her identity and joined the disciples’ formation, awkwardly copying their march.
• Chun Xiaobai spotted Yun Huoyue and Cangshan Daoist, then fled behind Li Yuanqiu and called them abnormal.
• Li Yuanqiu introduced Cangshan Daoist as the divination master Chun Xiaobai had requested, and Cangshan Daoist introduced Yun Huoyue as his direct disciple.
• Yun Huoyue recalled that Chun Xiaobai’s Fate Pattern could resolve her Dark Abyss Sinking Moon Fate Pattern and that her master had urged her to pursue him.
• Yun Huoyue told Chun Xiaobai she had missed him and acted coyly, leaving Chun Xiaobai frightened and Cangshan Daoist and Li Yuanqiu stunned.

Chun Xiaobai recruited Yun Huoyue and Cangshan Daoist for their usefulness, then prepared to set out for a sacred land. Yun Huoyue joined the training ranks under Bai Jin'er's strict orders, while Mu Qinglan quietly recognized Bai Jin'er as a promising leader.

• Li Yuanqiu realized Cangshan Daoist had sent Yun Huoyue to get close to Chun Xiaobai, and regretted not recruiting a female disciple himself.
• Chun Xiaobai let Yun Huoyue stay and train, then recognized Cangshan Daoist's hidden, powerful cultivation.
• Cangshan Daoist offered to guide Chun Xiaobai to a sacred land, and Chun Xiaobai agreed to call on him in a few days.
• Li Yuanqiu pulled Cangshan Daoist aside to discuss a family connection, while Chun Xiaobai joked that the old men would sell out anyone for money.
• Bai Jin'er ordered Yun Huoyue to stand straight and train, and Mu Qinglan considered Bai Jin'er a potential future sect master.
• Chun Xiaobai surveyed the training and decided it was time to prepare to set out.

Chun Xiaobai finished drilling the newcomers into disciplined formations and prepared to take them on a job, while Mu Qinglan wondered why a mere disciple was giving orders. The chapter ended with her asking a nearby female elder who Chun Xiaobai was.

• Chun Xiaobai decided to recruit the Fourth Boss from Heavenly Baleful Valley when the group passed nearby.
• After two days of drills, the newcomers mastered the goose step and formation exercises, and Fang Yuan dismissed them.
• Chun Xiaobai inspected the transformed recruits, then ordered more than two thousand people into five orderly formations.
• Chun Xiaobai told the assembled group that obeying orders was their sacred duty, and they answered in unison.
• Mu Qinglan watched Chun Xiaobai command the group and asked a nearby female elder who he was.

Chun Xiaobai led a heavily armed force toward the Heavenly Water Sacred Land while Mu Qinglan suspected he had gathered them to attack it. After flying more than ten thousand li, the army stopped at the shore of an enormous lake.

• Mu Qinglan suspected Chun Xiaobai was recruiting people from the Azure Cloud Sect, but held back when he kicked her and ordered her to speak up.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered Cangshan Daoist to lead the way to the Heavenly Water Sacred Land, sixty-five thousand li to the south.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered the units to don their Black Battle Armor, then Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang led the formation as the army took flight.
• Mu Qinglan flew with the army, increasingly convinced that its formation was meant for an attack rather than joining a sacred land.
• After flying more than ten thousand li across the Northern Province, Chun Xiaobai halted the army beside an enormous lake.

Chun Xiaobai’s group reached the hidden entrance to the Heavenly Water Sacred Land, but he hesitated over how to breach its formation safely. After Mu Qinglan joined them in disguise, he finished planning his approach and ordered everyone to move out.

• Cangshan Daoist tried to summon his old friends to welcome the group, but Chun Xiaobai had Li Yuanqiu take him aside so he would not learn their real purpose.
• Chun Xiaobai spotted a pillar of blue wealth energy rising from the lake and located the Heavenly Water Sacred Land’s hidden grotto entrance.
• Chun Xiaobai worried that touching the wrong spatial node would trigger the Sacred Land’s alarms, while Bai Jin'er and the Grand Supreme Elders grew anxious about getting inside.
• Mu Qinglan approached Chun Xiaobai in disguise, and Zhang Xuanhe recognized her voice but stayed silent after Chun Xiaobai warned him.
• After planning how to breach the formation without failure, Chun Xiaobai swept his hand forward and ordered the group to move out.

Chun Xiaobai secretly opened a spatial doorway into the Heavenly Water Sacred Land’s grotto heaven blessed land, while Mu Qinglan grew increasingly suspicious and angry about the elders’ defection. After the group entered, Mu Qinglan resolved to protect the Azure Cloud Sect’s name and make the person poaching its people pay.

• Mu Qinglan decided Chun Xiaobai was a middleman in the poaching and vowed to deal with him after finding the real culprit.
• Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Rending Hand to locate the spatial formation’s hub, but Mu Qinglan interrupted him just before he touched it.
• Zhang Xuanhe pulled Mu Qinglan aside, and Chun Xiaobai pressed the node, opening a golden doorway into the grotto heaven blessed land.
• Chun Xiaobai urged everyone to move quietly, and the elders pushed Mu Qinglan through the doorway with them.
• The group arrived at the Heavenly Water Sacred Land’s mountain entrance and marveled at its dense spiritual qi.
• Mu Qinglan understood why the elders wanted to leave, but resolved to uphold the Azure Cloud Sect’s name and kill the person poaching its people.

Chun Xiaobai led the Incense Masters and the Azure Cloud Sect forces into the Heavenly Water Sacred Land’s grotto heaven, where Mu Qinglan located its palaces and guided them there. Chun Xiaobai and the Incense Masters slipped through a concealed formation, leaving Mu Qinglan to wonder whether they were sneaking in to steal.

• Mu Qinglan detected the sacred land’s palaces eight thousand li to the north, and Chun Xiaobai ordered the group to advance there.
• Chun Xiaobai’s forces concealed themselves near the palaces and admired their costly construction while Mu Qinglan remained focused on the people who had poached members of her sect.
• Chun Xiaobai chose the plan for a sacred land with its forces concentrated in one place and led the Incense Masters ahead without the main force.
• Mu Qinglan followed Chun Xiaobai, mistaking his approach for a visit to the sacred land’s leaders and suspecting the elders had allied with them.
• Chun Xiaobai found a concealed sixth-tier defensive formation, opened a gap, and led the Incense Masters through it as Mu Qinglan questioned why they were sneaking in.

Chun Xiaobai led Mu Qinglan and the Azure Cloud Sect elders through the Heavenly Water Sacred Land’s grotto heaven to target a core elder, while Mu Qinglan struggled to understand their suspicious behavior. After Chun Xiaobai planted a demonic sword at the elder’s door, the elder mistook it for a surprise from his disciple Nangong Zheng, and Mu Qinglan began to grasp what was happening.

• Zhang Xuanhe took the blame for bringing Mu Qinglan along as Chun Xiaobai led the group through a remote entrance into the grotto heaven.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to locate a Spirit Transformation core elder, and the group stealthily crossed the residential halls toward him.
• Mu Qinglan grew increasingly suspicious as the elders crouched on the roof and prepared for their operation.
• Chun Xiaobai threw a demonic sword into the hall’s lintel, prompting the Pill Addict to come outside.
• The Pill Addict mistook the sword for a surprise from his disciple Nangong Zheng, and Mu Qinglan inferred the group’s intent.

Mu Qinglan attacked the Pill Addict after mistaking the elders’ secret gathering for a betrayal of the Azure Cloud Sect, killing him with one spear thrust. As the Heavenly Water Sacred Land surrounded Chun Xiaobai and the elders, a Black-Armored Army of more than two thousand troops broke into the Sacred Land.

• Mu Qinglan drew her Heaven-Piercing Spear and launched a surprise attack on the Pill Addict.
• The Pill Addict blocked Mu Qinglan’s first strike, but she drove her spear through his heart with her next thrust and killed him.
• Mu Qinglan turned on Chun Xiaobai, but terrifying auras approached before she could attack; Chun Xiaobai roared for help.
• Li Qingfeng told the others to take their positions, and Bai Yutang used a Jade Talisman to alert Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan led more than two thousand members of the Black-Armored Army through the gap in the formation as Saint Lord Lingbo and the Heavenly Water Sacred Land elders surrounded Chun Xiaobai’s group.

Chun Xiaobai and the Azure Cloud Sect elders confronted the Heavenly Water Sacred Land while posing as black-armored Emperor Pavilion Envoys, and Chun accused the sacred land of harboring demons. Saint Lord Lingbo grew wary of the imposing force, while Mu Qinglan realized the deception and feared its consequences; the chapter ended with Li Qingfeng ordering the sacred land seized.

• More than two thousand black-armored soldiers descended in formation, overwhelming the Heavenly Water Sacred Land elders with their killing intent.
• Chun Xiaobai accused the Heavenly Water Sacred Land of being a demon cavern after Mu Qinglan noticed the sinister glow of a sword beside the man she had killed.
• Li Qingfeng claimed the force served as Emperor Pavilion Envoys, and Saint Lord Lingbo became alarmed at the prospect of an investigation into his sacred land.
• Saint Lord Lingbo questioned why the supposed envoys wore black armor instead of the Emperor Pavilion's purple-gold armor, but Chun Xiaobai dismissed his objection.
• Mu Qinglan realized Chun Xiaobai had brought Azure Cloud Sect elders to impersonate Emperor Pavilion Envoys and worried that the deception would endanger the sect.
• Li Qingfeng recognized Mu Qinglan's spear, then accused Saint Lord Lingbo of turning his sacred land into a demon cavern and ordered his men to seize everyone.

Chun Xiaobai and the Azure Cloud Sect elders posed as Emperor Pavilion investigators to intimidate the Heavenly Water Sacred Land, whose Saint Lord eagerly denied any ties to demon cultivators. Bai Jin'er seized a ninth-tier pill formula as illicit property, while Mu Qinglan watched in shock.

• Saint Lord Lingbo stopped the Azure Cloud Sect elders and pleaded for a careful investigation, convinced they were Emperor Pavilion Envoys.
• Yun Huoyue realized Chun Xiaobai seemed to be making the Black-Armored Army impersonate Emperor Pavilion investigators.
• Zhang Xuanhe claimed the group had spent eighty years investigating, and Saint Lord Lingbo blamed the dead Pill Addict for deceiving the Heavenly Water Sacred Land.
• Bai Jin'er found that ninth-tier pill formulas were supreme treasures and ordered Saint Lord Lingbo to present the illicit property.
• An elder brought the incomplete Heaven-Defying Creation Pill formula, and Bai Jin'er confiscated it into her Storage Bracelet as Mu Qinglan cried out in shock.

Chun Xiaobai and the Azure Cloud Sect elders pressured the Heavenly Water Sacred Land into handing over treasures and spirit stones while pretending to investigate demon cultivators. Though the sacred land’s Ancestors suspected extortion, they had no proof, and Saint Lord Lingbo warned them not to act.

• Chun Xiaobai demanded that the Heavenly Water Sacred Land surrender stolen goods, and its Sacred Lord and elders dropped to their knees, pleading that they had no ties to demon cultivators.
• Saint Lord Lingbo presented evidence against the demon called the Pill Addict and secretly ordered elders to bring out treasures, while Mu Qinglan realized the Azure Cloud Sect was extorting the sacred land.
• Saint Lord Lingbo’s elders offered rare treasures, three Heaven Tier treasures, and ten trillion spirit stones, then brought out three more damaged rare treasures; Bai Jin'er swiftly stored one box.
• Bai Yutang checked a ledger and claimed the group might have followed the wrong lead, prompting Chun Xiaobai to scold him for wasting three days staking out the sacred land.
• The two Ancestors recognized that Chun Xiaobai’s group seemed to be extorting them and secretly told Saint Lord Lingbo, who asked whether they had proof; they admitted they did not.

Chun Xiaobai and Mu Qinglan tried to extort the Heavenly Water Sacred Land while posing as Emperor Pavilion Envoys, but Saint Lord Lingbo mistook their greed and nervousness for a trap meant to provoke the Sacred Land. The Sacred Land handed over its evidence and treasures without resistance, convinced it had seen through the scheme.

• Saint Lord Lingbo realized Chun Xiaobai and his Black-Armored Army looked like impostors, then worried that they were genuine envoys trying to bait the Heavenly Water Sacred Land into attacking.
• Chun Xiaobai noticed his soldiers and Mu Qinglan staring excitedly at the treasures, while Mu Qinglan tried to hide her nerves.
• Saint Lord Lingbo told the Ancestors that the envoys were pretending to be vulnerable as part of a trap, and they praised his insight.
• Saint Lord Lingbo gave Chun Xiaobai all the evidence against the Demon Cultivator and promised to hand over anything else they found.
• Mu Qinglan relaxed, and Saint Lord Lingbo and the Ancestors took her change in demeanor as proof that they had seen through the act.