Chapter Summaries

Chun Xiaobai and his group escaped the Heavenly Water Sacred Land after taking its money, while Mu Qinglan’s identity as the Azure Cloud Sect’s Sect Master remained hidden. The chapter ended with Chun Xiaobai mistaking her for an ancient sect Ancestor and calling her an old hag, enraging her.

• Chun Xiaobai abandoned his attempt to charge the Heavenly Water Sacred Land further and led his group away as Saint Lord Lingbo respectfully saw them off.
• The group withdrew more than a hundred thousand li to a hiding spot, where Mu Qinglan bumped into Chun Xiaobai and he ordered her to leave.
• Li Qiuyuan recognized Mu Qinglan, and the elders’ fearful reactions made Chun Xiaobai wonder who she was.
• Li Qingfeng warned Zhang Xuanhe not to reveal Mu Qinglan’s identity because Chun Xiaobai wanted to recruit the Azure Cloud Sect into his gang.
• Zhang Xuanhe told Chun Xiaobai that Mu Qinglan was a sect Ancestor, and Chun Xiaobai called her an old hag, provoking her fury.

Mu Qinglan confronted Li Qingfeng and the elders for secretly extorting Sacred Lands with Chun Xiaobai, but she calmed down after learning how much money the scheme could earn. She decided to tolerate Chun Xiaobai for now and wait until the Azure Cloud Sect had plundered every Sacred Land before demanding he hand over his share.

• Li Qingfeng, Zhou Qingyi, and the Grand Supreme Elders restrained Mu Qinglan and explained that Chun Xiaobai was the Azure Cloud Sect’s lucky star.
• The elders told Mu Qinglan that their latest deal had earned a hundred trillion spirit stones and that they had already completed more than thirty jobs.
• Mu Qinglan’s anger faded as she imagined the wealth they could earn by targeting nearly a hundred Sacred Lands.
• The elders offered Mu Qinglan their Storage Rings, and Li Qingfeng explained that Chun Xiaobai usually shared half of each deal with the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Mu Qinglan decided Chun Xiaobai should eventually hand over all his earnings, but she agreed to hold her temper until they had plundered the other Sacred Lands.

Mu Qinglan joined the elders’ extortion scheme and agreed to keep her identity secret while Chun Xiaobai accepted her into his group, believing she needed treatment. As Bai Jin'er calculated everyone’s wages, Bai Yutang rushed in with a warning that the Sect Master had infiltrated them.

• Mu Qinglan agreed to continue the extortion scheme for the promised money, and Li Qingfeng told her to hide that she was the Sect Master from Chun Xiaobai.
• After hearing the elders’ account of Mu Qinglan’s past, Chun Xiaobai accepted her into his group and declared that they would take no one else in.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered Bai Jin'er to calculate everyone’s shares and distribute half of the money.
• Zhang Xuanhe told Mu Qinglan the money was being handed out, and she demanded that her share be presented to her.
• Bai Yutang rushed to Bai Jin'er and warned that the Sect Master had sneaked in.

Bai Yutang and Zhang Xuanhe decided to hide Mu Qinglan’s presence from Chun Xiaobai while the sect continued its lucrative business. Meanwhile, Cangshan Daoist celebrated Chun Xiaobai’s payment of five hundred million spirit stones, unaware that he had helped lead the Azure Cloud Sect into extorting sacred lands.

• Bai Yutang and Zhang Xuanhe agreed to keep Mu Qinglan’s presence secret so Chun Xiaobai would not provoke her before their money-making venture was finished.
• Bai Jin'er daydreamed about using her earnings to buy pills and Jade Nectar to improve herself for the Great King.
• Fang Yuan and the elders reminisced about the Great King’s past romances and agreed to retrieve Qin Ruoxue from the Mystic Ice Palace when they passed by.
• Cangshan Daoist opened Yun Huoyue’s Storage Bag, found five hundred million spirit stones, and praised Chun Xiaobai as a lucky star.
• Yun Huoyue worried that Chun Xiaobai’s plan to extort sacred lands would bring trouble, but she avoided warning her master and described the venture as business involving demon cultivators.
• Cangshan Daoist assumed Chun Xiaobai’s business concerned demon cultivators and asked whether the Heavenly Water Sacred Land had uncovered any leads.

Cangshan Daoist urged Yun Huoyue to pursue Chun Xiaobai, while Chun Xiaobai discovered the value of the rare treasures he had received. Yun Huoyue approached him bashfully but was pushed away by Bai Jin'er, and Chun Xiaobai turned his attention back to recruiting incense masters for the Black Wind Stronghold.

• Cangshan Daoist told Yun Huoyue that Bai Jin'er was her rival and urged her to compete for Chun Xiaobai, so Yun Huoyue gathered her courage and approached him.
• Bai Jin'er showed Chun Xiaobai the treasures they had brought back, and he learned that some valuable items had already been distributed among the elders.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye on a damaged rare treasure and discovered that its origin spirit was far more powerful than that of a heaven-tier magical treasure.
• Yun Huoyue approached Chun Xiaobai bashfully, but Bai Jin'er mistook her behavior for an illness and shoved her away.
• Chun Xiaobai wondered whether Yun Huoyue had fallen for him, then decided to recruit the elders as incense masters for the Black Wind Stronghold.

Chun Xiaobai tried to reward his Grand Supreme Elders with promotions, salaries, and magical artifacts, while Mu Qinglan’s disapproval kept them from showing their excitement. Frustrated by their stiff silence, he fired Zhang Xuanhe and Zhao Wuji.

• Yun Huoyue knocked Bai Jin'er away with her golden-core aura, then sat beneath a tree instead of returning to Chun Xiaobai.
• Chun Xiaobai called the Grand Supreme Elders together and asked whether they considered him loyal to his people.
• Chun Xiaobai offered the twenty-three Incense Masters a chance to become Helmsmen, with a monthly salary of one billion spirit stones and a rare treasure magical artifact as a year-end bonus.
• Mu Qinglan’s cold presence made the elders hide their excitement, leaving Chun Xiaobai puzzled and angry.
• Chun Xiaobai kicked Li Qingfeng, then fired Zhang Xuanhe and Zhao Wuji and ordered them to leave.

Chun Xiaobai secured the elders’ obedience with a monthly stipend and ordered Bai Yutang to find the coordinates of a nearby sacred land. Cangshan Daoist identified Cloudpeak Sacred Land, but Bai Yutang froze when Cangshan contacted its leader directly to request the coordinates.

• Chun Xiaobai threatened to dismiss Zhang Xuanhe and Zhao Wuji for staying silent, while the elders stopped Mu Qinglan from attacking him by reminding her of the coming rewards.
• The elders explained that they had been overwhelmed by Chun Xiaobai’s offer of a billion spirit stones each month, then agreed to prepare for the next job.
• Chun Xiaobai sent Bai Yutang to ask Cangshan Daoist to identify a nearby sacred land, while Mu Qinglan watched from the path with her spear in hand.
• Bai Yutang told Cangshan Daoist that Chun Xiaobai was a secret envoy investigating a demon cultivator and asked him to divine the closest sacred land.
• Cangshan Daoist pointed out the direction of Cloudpeak Sacred Land, then contacted Qingyang to request its spatial coordinates, leaving Bai Yutang stunned.

After Cangshan Daoist unknowingly handed over Cloudpeak Sacred Land’s coordinates, Chun Xiaobai began preparing for the operation by seeking intelligence. Mu Qinglan reluctantly joined in and realized Chun Xiaobai’s careful planning made him more professional than she was.

• Cangshan Daoist obtained Cloudpeak Sacred Land’s spatial coordinates from Old Daoist Qingyang and passed them to Bai Yutang, who brought them to Chun Xiaobai.
• Chun Xiaobai questioned Li Qingfeng about Cloudpeak Sacred Land, but Mu Qinglan interrupted and said she knew about it.
• Li Qingfeng persuaded Mu Qinglan to cooperate by reminding her that the job could earn them a fifty-trillion share.
• Chun Xiaobai insisted they gather thorough intelligence before approaching a sacred land, explaining that a careless assault could trap and kill his crew.
• Mu Qinglan recalled Chun Xiaobai’s previous operations and realized he was more meticulous and professional than she was.

Chun Xiaobai led the Azure Cloud Sect toward the Cloudpeak Sacred Land after Mu Qinglan shared what she knew about it. The disciplined army reached the Sacred Land’s hidden entrance, where Chun Xiaobai prepared to investigate while Bai Yutang distracted Cangshan Daoist with a chess game.

• Mu Qinglan described the Cloudpeak Sacred Land’s powers, arrogance, and isolation, and Chun Xiaobai decided it was unlikely to be a Demon Cavern.
• Chun Xiaobai mobilized more than two thousand Azure Cloud Sect members, whose disciplined formation astonished Mu Qinglan, then led them southeast under cover of night.
• The group traveled cautiously and reached mountains surrounded by thunderclouds, where Chun Xiaobai ordered the area searched for defenses and warning formations.
• After the Incense Masters reported the area secure, Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to check the surroundings and went to a mountaintop locust pine that marked the entrance to the Cloudpeak Sacred Land.
• Bai Yutang diverted Cangshan Daoist by asking for help with an ancient chess game as Chun Xiaobai examined the entrance.

Chun Xiaobai led Mu Qinglan and the Azure Cloud Sect elders into the Cloudpeak Sacred Land to rob it while Bai Yutang stalled Cangshan Daoist. After Chun Xiaobai marked a wealthy side hall as their target, Mu Qinglan rushed ahead and threatened to disrupt the plan.

• Chun Xiaobai opened a spatial gate into the Cloudpeak Sacred Land, and Li Qingfeng checked that the landing area was clear.
• Bai Yutang kept Cangshan Daoist occupied with a chess game, while Lu Qingshan watched his Junior Sister join the robbery.
• Chun Xiaobai led the group to the Guest Reception Platform, ordered everyone to hide, and later tore open the sect's sixth-tier Sect-Guardian Formation.
• Mu Qinglan accepted that she would join the robbery to help fund the Azure Cloud Sect and followed Chun Xiaobai inside.
• Chun Xiaobai identified a lavish side hall as their target and planted the Demonic Sword at its entrance.
• Mu Qinglan dashed toward the hall before Chun Xiaobai could stop her, and he angrily warned her not to rush.

Mu Qinglan attacked Liu Qingyang at Cloudpeak Sacred Land, mistaking his demonic artifact for proof of demonic cultivation and claiming authority as an Emperor Pavilion Envoy. She demanded the sacred land hand over Liu Qingyang and evidence of collusion, while Lei Yantian and the others tried to understand what she wanted.

• Liu Qingyang emerged from the hall, spotted the Demonic Sword, and crushed a warning jade pendant, but Mu Qinglan knocked it away and attacked him with her spear.
• Liu Qingyang defended himself with the Demonic Sword and fled into the air as Cloudpeak Sacred Land's elders gathered to confront Mu Qinglan.
• Chun Xiaobai signaled Zhang Xuanhe to accuse Cloudpeak Sacred Land of harboring demonic filth, and Mu Qinglan declared herself an Emperor Pavilion Envoy.
• Liu Qingyang denied owning the Demonic Sword, but Mu Qinglan accused him of being caught red-handed as Lei Yantian and the elders panicked.
• Zhao Wuji led more than two thousand black-armored fighters into the sky, and Mu Qinglan demanded Liu Qingyang and evidence of collusion with demon cultivators.
• Lei Yantian's elders guessed that the visitors wanted to take Liu Qingyang back to the Emperor Pavilion for a reward.

Mu Qinglan and Chun Xiaobai’s group confronted Cloudpeak Sacred Land over Elder Liu’s Demonic Artifact, and Lei Yantian hastily offered up valuables to avoid blame. Chun Xiaobai ordered a retreat, and the group realized they had left Elder Liu behind and hurried back.

• Lei Yantian ordered the Cloudpeak Sacred Land elders to seize Elder Liu, then they restrained him and presented his Demonic Artifact to Chun Xiaobai’s group.
• Lei Yantian offered boxes of Heaven-Tier Magical Artifacts and then five Rare Treasures, which Bai Jin'er confiscated.
• Lei Yantian suspected the visitors had come to extort the sacred land, while Chun Xiaobai became uncomfortable with how readily they surrendered their treasures.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered his group to pull out, and the Black-Armored Army vanished, leaving Elder Liu behind.
• Chun Xiaobai and Li Qingfeng realized they had forgotten Elder Liu and hurried back toward the mountain.

Chun Xiaobai's group left Cloudpeak Sacred Land with a haul of rare treasures after Lei Yantian convinced his elders not to pursue them. At the meeting point, Chun Xiaobai and Mu Qinglan argued over how to divide the treasure, while Bai Jin'er objected that it was not spirit stones.

• Lei Yantian stopped the Cloudpeak Sacred Land elders from chasing Chun Xiaobai's group, claiming they might be Emperor Pavilion Envoys and that the extortion was a trap.
• Lei Yantian apologized to Liu Qingyang and told him the sacred land had only pretended to hand him over as part of a counterespionage ploy.
• Chun Xiaobai led his group out of Cloudpeak Sacred Land and decided he would demand even more next time, once he had established the proper expenses and procedures.
• Mu Qinglan watched Bai Jin'er and Chun Xiaobai on the way back, guessing that they were a couple with Bai Jin'er handling money and Chun Xiaobai handling people.
• At the meeting point, Chun Xiaobai hesitated over dividing the treasure, and Mu Qinglan proposed splitting it in half.
• Mu Qinglan claimed she had helped secure the haul, but Bai Jin'er argued that the treasures were useless to her because she had arranged to earn her commission in spirit stones; Chun Xiaobai kicked Mu Qinglan aside.

Chun Xiaobai rewarded the elders with treasures after their raid, while Cangshan Daoist arranged for the displaced Liu Qingyang to join the Azure Cloud Sect. The next day, Chun Xiaobai’s group raided the Mystic Heaven Sacred Land, but Bai Jin'er was frustrated that Mu Qinglan once again handled the negotiations and they earned no spirit stones.

• Chun Xiaobai gave the elders three Heaven-Tier Magical Treasures and let them choose two Rare Treasures, then sent Zhang Xuanhe to pay Cangshan Daoist.
• Liu Qingyang told Cangshan Daoist he had left the Cloudpeak Sacred Land, and Cangshan offered him a place at the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Yun Huoyue worried that Liu Qingyang might recognize the Azure Cloud Sect’s leader as the person who had treated him as a demon cultivator, but Cangshan misunderstood her concern.
• Chun Xiaobai sent Bai Yutang to ask Cangshan Daoist to choose their next destination, and the group traveled to raid the Mystic Heaven Sacred Land.
• Mu Qinglan negotiated another haul of five Heaven-Tier Magical Treasures and five Rare Treasures, while Bai Jin'er complained that they had earned no spirit stones.

Chun Xiaobai and Mu Qinglan spent a month collecting treasures from Sacred Lands, then Chun Xiaobai led his companions on a massive spending spree across the Northern Twelve Provinces. After they regrouped, Bai Jin'er was the only one missing.

• Mu Qinglan killed a Sacred Land elder, split the spoils with Chun Xiaobai, and continued visiting Sacred Lands with him for a month.
• Chun Xiaobai and his group collected one hundred Heaven-Tier Magical Treasures and fifty damaged Rare Treasures while sweeping through more than a dozen Sacred Lands and several Top-Tier Sects.
• Bai Jin'er suggested spending their vast fortune on treasures, and Chun Xiaobai agreed to take her, Fang Yuan, and Bai Yutang to Soaring Heavens City.
• Chun Xiaobai's group emptied the Treasure Pavilion and other trading houses, then outbid other buyers at the city's auction houses.
• The group swept through trading houses across three provinces, evaded people targeting them, and gathered at their meeting place three days later, where Bai Jin'er had not yet arrived.

Mu Qinglan continued buying treasures and studying books on how to win over the Great King, while Ling Tianchen tried to spend the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance’s trillion spirit stones and found that prices had skyrocketed. He gathered more funds by claiming anomalies were preparing a major attack, and Mu Qinglan asked him how far the alliance’s investigation had gotten.

• Mu Qinglan returned late after buying treasures and books about beauty, bearing, and attracting men, then resumed working overtime with Chun Xiaobai the next day.
• Ling Tianchen went to the Northern Twelve Provinces to buy treasures but found that prices had risen dramatically, so he left without spending his trillion spirit stones.
• Ling Tianchen called a Ten Thousand Sects Alliance meeting, claimed anomalies were preparing a major move, and demanded that sects provide more people or money for an investigation.
• The alliance traced the anomalies’ footprints to the Northern Twelve Provinces, prompting members to pay fees for protection.
• Mu Qinglan paid ten billion spirit stones from the Azure Cloud Sect’s account, and Ling Tianchen contacted her to ask what she had been doing.
• Mu Qinglan asked Ling Tianchen how far his investigation had gotten.

Mu Qinglan and Chun Xiaobai continued robbing sacred lands, while Ling Tianchen tried to catch up with the mysterious entity and contact the same lands. The chapter left Mu Qinglan urging Chun Xiaobai to keep working after he stopped following their latest raid.

• After Ling Tianchen told Mu Qinglan that he was tracking them in Tianhe Province, she persuaded Chun Xiaobai to take a detour to avoid him.
• Mu Qinglan led the group through more raids, taking sect treasures while Chun Xiaobai accumulated enough wealth to attempt a golden core breakthrough.
• Ling Tianchen asked Xue Daoxuan to find Cangshan Daoist, who supplied coordinates and instructions for contacting the Nine Profound Sacred Land.
• Ling Tianchen established contact with the Nine Profound Sacred Land, but its people told him to scram.
• After the group swept the Nine Profound Sacred Land, Chun Xiaobai stopped working, and Mu Qinglan tried to make him resume their raids.

Chun Xiaobai left the Sacred Lands to cultivate, while Bai Jin'er kept watch over Mu Qinglan and Yun Huoyue as romantic rivals. In seclusion, he used Rare Treasures to open his divine treasury and gained a tremendous increase in power.

• Chun Xiaobai silenced Mu Qinglan, then left to find a place for secluded cultivation.
• Bai Jin'er watched Mu Qinglan and Yun Huoyue after Chun Xiaobai refused to tell her where he was going.
• Chun Xiaobai examined his Rare Treasures and concluded that the Black Flame Blade surpassed the Supreme Treasure level.
• Chun Xiaobai activated the Martial God Art, drawing origin breath from the Rare Treasures as immense pain battered his body.
• Chun Xiaobai opened his divine treasury and felt enough power to flatten the thousand-foot mountain before him.

Chun Xiaobai used his collected treasures to complete the Treasure-Building Realm and push toward the Divine-Opening Realm. After sacrificing sixteen supreme treasures, he triggered a violent breakthrough in his cave.

• Chun Xiaobai absorbed the origin spirit from his rare treasures and formed a strange dragon-like silhouette in his Dantian, but ran out of fuel before breaking through.
• He consumed his remaining spirit herbs and treasures, gradually solidifying the silhouette but still failing to complete it.
• Chun Xiaobai reluctantly fed sixteen supreme treasures into the Martial God Art, sending a tremendous surge of origin power into his body.
• The silhouette in Chun Xiaobai's Dantian took shape under the pressure, then a ringing sound marked its opening as golden light and a vast vortex erupted.

Chun Xiaobai completed a mysterious breakthrough and reached what he called the Divine-Opening Realm, while tribulation clouds gathered over the valley where Mu Qinglan and the Azure Cloud Sect elders were staying. Mu Qinglan realized Chun Xiaobai was behind the clouds and accused him of ambushing her, but the elders carried her away as they feared heavenly retribution.

• Chun Xiaobai discovered a golden, person-shaped figure in his dantian, sensed his immense new strength, and declared that he had achieved the Divine-Opening Realm.
• Mu Qinglan admired how Chun Xiaobai had transformed the Azure Cloud Sect elders but wondered why he devoted himself to Black Wind Stronghold instead of her sect.
• Dark clouds gathered over the valley, and Zhang Xuan identified them as heavenly retribution.
• Mu Qinglan recognized the clouds from the earlier tribulation and deduced that Chun Xiaobai had survived and was nearby.
• Yun Huoyue confirmed that Chun Xiaobai had drawn the clouds, and Mu Qinglan accused him of ambushing her.
• The elders seized Mu Qinglan and carried her away, shouting that heavenly retribution was coming.