Chapter Summaries

Mu Qinglan concealed Chun Xiaobai’s identity and ordered everyone to withdraw as the heavenly tribulation clouds dispersed. Inside the Martial God Tower’s Second Layer, Chun Xiaobai fought bronze men armed with broadswords and began using his blade techniques to face their trial.

• Mu Qinglan drove the surrounding elders back, withheld her explanation about Chun Xiaobai, and ordered everyone to withdraw beyond a hundred thousand miles.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, while the Martial God Tower pulled Chun Xiaobai inside and revealed that the Second Layer’s door was open.
• The bronze men attacked Chun Xiaobai with golden broadswords, broke his Golden Staff, and chased him around the sealed room.
• Chun Xiaobai drew his Black Flame Blade, realized he had to overcome the bronze men’s blade techniques, and knocked down the leading attackers with One Blade, One.
• When the remaining bronze men caught up, Chun Xiaobai blocked their swords, surged into close range, and prepared another One Blade, One.

Chun Xiaobai defeated the bronze men in the Martial God Tower, learned the Dragon-Slaying Saber Technique, and was expelled from the tower. Back in the Cave, he faced Mu Qinglan, whose spear thrust his Golden Bell Shield repelled at the cost of most of his strength.

• Chun Xiaobai defeated more than forty bronze men with two strikes but failed to take their golden saber or move them.
• A bronze stele rose, and Chun Xiaobai memorized its images to inherit the nine-strike Dragon-Slaying Saber Technique.
• Chun Xiaobai learned that mastering the first strike, Slay Humans, would reveal the later strikes and make his attacks inflict true damage.
• The Martial God Tower expelled Chun Xiaobai, and he escaped the collapsing Cave after returning from three days of seclusion.
• Mu Qinglan attacked Chun Xiaobai with her spear, and his Golden Bell Shield reflected much of the force but drained two-thirds of his strength.

Mu Qinglan tried to attack Chun Xiaobai, but Yun Huoyue and Bai Jin'er protected him, and the elders calmed Mu Qinglan by reminding her of the sect’s wealth. Chun Xiaobai set out to collect the stronghold’s Fourth Boss, Xiao Zhang, while the group debated their boss rankings.

• Yun Huoyue and Bai Jin'er stepped between Mu Qinglan and Chun Xiaobai, and Chun Xiaobai ordered Mu Qinglan to stop.
• Li Qingfeng and the elders showed Mu Qinglan over a hundred Rare Treasures and persuaded her to prioritize the sect’s fortune.
• Mu Qinglan calmed down and told the elders to hurry Chun Xiaobai back to work.
• Yun Huoyue checked on Chun Xiaobai, but Bai Jin'er pulled him away before he could ask whether Yun Huoyue had feelings for him.
• Chun Xiaobai gathered everyone and chose to travel to the Heavenly Baleful Valley to pick up Xiao Zhang, the Fourth Boss.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Yutang explained the stronghold’s boss rankings, and Zhang Xuanhe asked who the Sixth Boss was.

Chun Xiaobai led his group to Heavenly Baleful Valley to retrieve his brother, but Mu Qinglan and the others raced ahead to loot the rear mountain. They targeted Zheng Tianyuan by throwing a Demonic Sword into his hands, setting him up to take the blame for what came next.

• Chun Xiaobai ordered the procession toward Heavenly Baleful Valley, while Bai Yutang persuaded Cangshan Daoist to join them with the promise of a forged departure pass.
• The group traveled through the Valley of Ten Thousand Spirits, and Mu Qinglan realized they were heading to the supposedly poor Heavenly Baleful Valley.
• Chun Xiaobai tore open the sect's protective formation and led everyone inside, intending to surprise his brother.
• Mu Qinglan led a group of old fellows toward the rear mountain, ignoring Chun Xiaobai's calls to return.
• Mu Qinglan threw a Demonic Sword at Zheng Tianyuan, and he instinctively caught it.

Zheng Tianyuan was accused of being a demon after the Emperor Pavilion’s Black-Armored Army found him holding a Demonic Sword, while Ye Liuli suspected the supposed envoys were impostors. The confrontation remained unresolved as Ye Liuli acknowledged the sword was genuine but Zheng Tianyuan insisted he had only just picked it up.

• Zhang Xuanhe arrived with the Black-Armored Army and accused Heavenly Baleful Valley of being a demon's den.
• Ye Xiaotian recognized the sword in Zheng Tianyuan's hand as a Demonic Artifact and feared the sect was doomed.
• Zheng Tianyuan claimed he had just picked up the sword, while Mu Qinglan challenged him to find another one.
• Ye Liuli accused the black-armored group of impersonating Emperor Pavilion Envoys and argued that the sword might not belong to Zheng Tianyuan.
• Zheng Tianyuan threw down the sword, and Ye Liuli recognized it as a genuine Demonic Artifact despite suspecting the envoys were impostors.

Ye Liuli recognized Chun Xiaobai as the bandit who had kidnapped her, but Chun Xiaobai used Xiao Zhang’s confession to accuse the Heavenly Baleful Valley of harboring a demon. As Ye Liuli weighed whether she could stop the impostors, Mu Qinglan began listing their investigation expenses.

• Ye Liuli used her void insight true eye on Chun Xiaobai and accused him of being the bandit from the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits.
• Chun Xiaobai secretly instructed Xiao Zhang, who knelt and declared that he was a demon seeking to join the Righteous Path.
• Ye Xiaotian denied that the Heavenly Baleful Valley sheltered demons, while Xiao Zhang insisted he had not been sent to frame the valley.
• Ye Liuli realized that her sect could not detain Chun Xiaobai’s powerful group and tried to find a way through the crisis.
• Li Qingfeng suggested there might be a misunderstanding, and Mu Qinglan began itemizing the group’s travel and investigation costs.

Chun Xiaobai's group extorted Heavenly Baleful Valley, took Xiao Zhang with them, and escaped to their base. There, they learned Ye Liuli had recognized Chun Xiaobai because of her Void Insight True Eye, while the group met Xiao Zhang as the Black Wind Stronghold's Fourth Boss.

• Ye Xiaotian agreed to pay Chun Xiaobai's group to prove Heavenly Baleful Valley's innocence, and Bai Jin'er snatched the Storage Ring before they left.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered the group to take Xiao Zhang, and Fang Yuan carried him away as the group withdrew from Heavenly Baleful Valley.
• After the group reached their base, Xiao Zhang clung to Chun Xiaobai and declared how much he had missed him.
• Zhang Xuanhe explained that Ye Liuli's Void Insight True Eye could see through falsehoods and trace the paths of laws.
• Chun Xiaobai introduced Xiao Zhang as the Fourth Boss of Black Wind Stronghold, prompting the others to question his appearance.

Mu Qinglan encountered Lu Qingshan and the bandits prepared to target the Sacred Land, while Ye Liuli used Chun Xiaobai’s Demonic Sword to explain Heavenly Baleful Valley’s predicament to her father. The chapter ended with Ye Liuli revealing that Chun Xiaobai’s group had extorted thirty billion spirit stones from the sect.

• Mu Qinglan learned that Lu Qingshan had been blamed for the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits kidnappings and asked why he wore a mask.
• Chun Xiaobai announced that the bandits would set out the next day to extort the Sacred Land, exciting Xiao Zhang and alarming the other elders.
• Ye Liuli found Ye Xiaotian watching Heavenly Baleful Valley descend into chaos after the demonic artifact incident.
• Ye Liuli proposed that the sect relocate and change its name to escape suspicion of ties to demon cultivators.
• Ye Xiaotian mistook Ye Liuli’s explanation of the strange incidents for proof that the missing sects had been extorted and ordered an immediate move.
• Ye Liuli stopped Ye Xiaotian and revealed that Chun Xiaobai’s group had extorted thirty billion spirit stones from Heavenly Baleful Valley.

Ye Liuli persuaded Ye Xiaotian to imitate the Emperor Pavilion’s extortion scheme and use a Demonic Artifact to force sects to pay. Ye Xiaotian approved her plan, and she began recruiting Zheng Tianyuan as an assistant.

• Ye Liuli proposed that Heavenly Baleful Valley impersonate Emperor Pavilion Envoys and extort other sects with the Demonic Artifact.
• Ye Liuli argued that the sect could earn trillions of spirit stones and build saint-tier puppets, while Ye Xiaotian worried about the risks and his reputation.
• Ye Xiaotian gave Ye Liuli permission to handle the plan after she promised to bring back one trillion spirit stones in a month.
• Ye Liuli summoned Zheng Tianyuan and asked about the Demonic Sword, and he explained that it had flown toward him and he had caught it.
• Ye Xiaotian concluded that Ye Liuli needed an assistant with good throwing accuracy.

Ye Liuli and Ye Xiaotian planned to disguise their people in gold armor to impersonate Emperor Pavilion Envoys, while Chun Xiaobai’s group discovered a hidden sacred land above the clouds. After breaking through its barrier, Chun Xiaobai learned the upper realm contained spirit crystals, which he believed could meet his needs.

• Ye Liuli told Ye Xiaotian to make gold battle armor so their group could impersonate Emperor Pavilion Envoys without copying the real ones exactly.
• Ye Xiaotian ordered Zheng Tianyuan to summon the elders for a secret meeting.
• Mu Qinglan and Chun Xiaobai’s group searched the sacred land’s grotto heaven for a day and a night without finding its buildings.
• Xiao Zhang suggested the sect might be hidden above them, and Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to spot a golden beam in the sky.
• Mu Qinglan identified the hidden place as a Mayfly Grotto Heaven, and Li Qingfeng explained that its Immortal Realm lay above the Mortal Realm.
• Chun Xiaobai tore open the barrier, felt the dense spiritual qi, and asked Li Qingfeng where he could find spirit crystals.

Chun Xiaobai led his group into a sacred land, where they extorted a disciple for rare treasures and spirit stones. After the successful haul, Xiao Zhang won Chun Xiaobai’s favor with extravagant flattery and received a ten-billion-spirit-stone bonus.

• Yun Huoyue told Chun Xiaobai that spirit crystals could only be found in the Eastern Region, and the group entered the barrier to find a golden floating island.
• Chun Xiaobai said the island was not impressive enough to seize, then led everyone through its protective formation using the Thirty-Six Forms of Heaven-Splitting Hand.
• Mu Qinglan planted a Demonic Sword near a sacred land disciple, and Zhang Xuanhe accused him of being a demon to draw the island’s disciples over.
• Xiao Zhang nearly implicated the group by suggesting the island had once been a Demon Sect stronghold, but Li Qingfeng stopped him before the disciples heard.
• The group extorted twenty rare treasures and one hundred billion spirit stones from the frightened disciple.
• Xiao Zhang praised Chun Xiaobai extravagantly, earned a ten-billion-spirit-stone bonus, and celebrated with a Thomas Flair.

Ye Liuli turned the Heavenly Baleful Valley’s elders into a force and began extorting sects under the guise of Emperor Pavilion Envoys. After a successful raid on the Great Yu Sect, Ye Xiaotian led the next operation, but his overly threatening approach provoked the target sect to fight back.

• Xiao Zhang proposed finding Chun Xiaobai a Stronghold Madam, but Bai Jin'er kicked him flying and Chun Xiaobai decided to wait before getting one.
• Ye Liuli drilled the Heavenly Baleful Valley’s elders and led them to extort three hundred million spirit stones from a third-rate sect.
• Ye Liuli used an Explosive Thunder Talisman to breach the Great Yu Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Array and collected five billion spirit stones.
• Ye Xiaotian volunteered to lead the next raid, but his forceful approach made the target sect attack them first.

Ye Liuli’s Heavenly Baleful Valley successfully extorted two top-tier sects, while Ling Tianchen’s investigation brought together several sacred lands that had also been robbed. The furious sacred lands pursued the bandits, but found only more victims and began to suspect something was wrong.

• Ye Liuli took command of the Heavenly Baleful Valley’s team, extorted a hundred billion spirit stones from a sect, and led two more raids overnight.
• Ling Tianchen contacted the Myriad Spirits Sacred Land, whose people realized they had been extorted and beat him for failing to report the strange events sooner.
• The Myriad Spirits Sacred Land followed Ling Tianchen to the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land, where the two sides fought before realizing both had been robbed by the same bandits.
• The Heavenly Origin Sacred Land joined the pursuit, and Ling Tianchen led the group to four or five more sacred lands that had also been extorted.
• After discovering that one sacred land had lost half its Treasure Vault, its Holy Lord joined the pursuit, but the group found no trace of the bandits and began to suspect something was wrong.

After being beaten and driven away by the Sacred Lords, Ling Tianchen quit the investigation and told Mu Qinglan he was returning to Alliance headquarters, cutting off her source of intelligence. Mu Qinglan decided to have Chun Xiaobai lead the group as they pursued the remaining Sacred Lands to plunder.

• The Sacred Lords accused Ling Tianchen of leaking their movements to the bandits and beat him when he insisted he had only been contacting a woman he was courting.
• Ling Tianchen returned to the Alliance base, told Mu Qinglan he had left the Sacred Land group, and invited her to meet him.
• Mu Qinglan angrily ended the transmission, while Ling Tianchen resolved to get rich and called an urgent Alliance meeting about the anomalies.
• Mu Qinglan worried that losing Ling Tianchen's information would make it harder to raid the remaining Sacred Lands, but decided Chun Xiaobai should lead the group.
• Chun Xiaobai discussed establishing the Black Wind Stronghold with Fang Yuan, Xiao Zhang, Bai Jin'er, and the others as Xiao Zhang chose an auspicious date.

Chun Xiaobai offered Mu Qinglan the position of Sixth Boss in Black Wind Stronghold, but Bai Jin'er tried to stop him by listing Mu Qinglan’s faults. As Chun Xiaobai described the position’s generous perks, Mu Qinglan remained worried that their pursuers would catch up with them.

• Bai Jin'er confronted Mu Qinglan when she approached Chun Xiaobai, but Chun Xiaobai pushed Bai Jin'er aside and led Mu Qinglan away to talk.
• Chun Xiaobai offered Mu Qinglan the position of Sixth Boss, and Mu Qinglan hesitated over whether the title suited her status as a sect leader.
• Bai Jin'er objected to the offer, criticizing Mu Qinglan’s extortion, schemes, and flattery, while Bai Yutang, Fang Yuan, and Xiao Zhang protested being dragged into the argument.
• Mu Qinglan snapped back at Bai Jin'er, and Chun Xiaobai roared at both women before Fang Yuan dragged Bai Jin'er away.
• Chun Xiaobai outlined the bosses’ shares of profits and treasures, access to the Mountain-Guarding Treasure, and a team of five hundred subordinates.
• Mu Qinglan worried that the Vengeance Alliance was closing in and that their next job could leave them surrounded.

Chun Xiaobai mistook Mu Qinglan’s actions for romantic interest and offered to make her his Stronghold Madam, prompting her to punch him. After the others nearly fought over him, they backed down when reminded of their shared profits, but Chun Xiaobai still demanded that Mu Qinglan explain her insult.

• Chun Xiaobai offered to take Mu Qinglan as his Stronghold Madam, and Mu Qinglan punched him into the ground.
• Bai Jin'er rushed to Chun Xiaobai's side and attacked Mu Qinglan, while Yun Huoyue declared their sisterhood over and prepared to fight too.
• The old men tried to restrain Bai Jin'er and Yun Huoyue, and Cangshan Daoist arrived and proposed dividing Chun Xiaobai's time among the three women.
• Mu Qinglan said she did not want Chun Xiaobai and insulted his appeal, angering him.
• Li Qingfeng reminded them that fighting could cost them their shared profits, so Mu Qinglan and Bai Jin'er withdrew their murderous auras.
• Chun Xiaobai stood up and demanded that Mu Qinglan explain how he had insulted her taste.

Mu Qinglan swallowed her pride to preserve the Eastern Region’s lucrative deals, while Chun Xiaobai rejected Yun Huoyue’s offer to leave the region and focused on expanding his enterprise. Cangshan Daoist began advising Yun Huoyue on pursuing Chun Xiaobai, but stopped when a message arrived from his old friend Old Loach.

• Zhou Qingyi persuaded Mu Qinglan to avoid offending Chun Xiaobai because the sect still had sacred lands to shake down, and Mu Qinglan blamed Li Qingfeng for her earlier remark.
• Chun Xiaobai warned Mu Qinglan to watch what she said, then rejected Yun Huoyue’s proposal to leave the Eastern Region and told her to get ready for work.
• Chun Xiaobai explained to himself that he needed to build his strength in the Eastern Region before pursuing his Immortal Emperor ambitions elsewhere.
• Mu Qinglan gathered the elders to arrange their next operation, while Yun Huoyue listened as Cangshan Daoist offered her advice on winning Chun Xiaobai over.
• Cangshan Daoist noticed that the Message Jade Pendant from his old friend Old Loach had lit up.

Cangshan Daoist obtained Sacred Land coordinates for Chun Xiaobai’s team, while Ye Liuli counted the vast profits from extorting more than sixty sects. Still determined to surpass Chun Xiaobai and eventually take revenge, she led her elders toward another target.

• Cangshan Daoist called an acquaintance to obtain his Sacred Land’s coordinates and gave the Jade Slip to Yun Huoyue for Bai Yutang, warning her to collect payment.
• Chun Xiaobai saw the coordinates and ordered Mu Qinglan to lead the team back to work.
• Ye Liuli and the elders counted their spoils from extorting more than sixty sects, with Ye Liuli keeping most of the six trillion spirit stones.
• Ye Liuli resolved to amass resources by targeting many smaller sects before seeking revenge on Chun Xiaobai.
• Ye Liuli assembled the elders and led them southwest to extort a newly risen first-rate sect.

Ye Liuli and the Heavenly Baleful Valley elders tried to extort the Red Glow Sect, but the sect recognized their scam and chased them away. The group escaped after exhausting their protective gear, while Lin Wanshan realized the Red Glow Sect had abandoned its heritage to flee an earlier extortion scam.

• Ye Liuli led the golden-armored troops into the Red Glow Sect and had an elder plant a demonic artifact to set up their familiar accusation.
• Elder Da Ming recognized the routine from the Purple-Gold Battle Armor bandits who had extorted the Red Glow Sect, and the sect called for backup.
• Ye Liuli ordered the group to retreat before they could name a price, and the Red Glow Sect pursued them with magical treasures and talismans.
• Ye Liuli concluded that the Red Glow Sect had already been targeted by the bandit, then ordered the elders to buy more protective gear despite rising prices.
• Lin Wanshan returned to the Red Glow Sect's hideout and spat blood when he realized they had abandoned their three-thousand-year heritage to escape an earlier scam.

After the Red Glow Sect lost its home and treasures to a scam, Lin Wanshan proposed copying the swindlers’ extortion scheme to rebuild the sect. Lin Xuanyue spared him once he saw the scheme’s profit potential, and the elders gathered to hear more.

• Lin Wanshan and the elders lamented that the sect’s relocation and earth-vein excavation had been caused by a scam.
• The Grand Supreme Elder suggested that the Red Glow Sect copy the Golden Armor Army’s extortion racket, but Lin Wanshan worried they lacked a demonic artifact.
• Lin Wanshan learned that Lin Xuanyue had destroyed the demonic artifact and slapped him in anger.
• Lin Xuanyue grabbed Lin Wanshan by the throat, but Lin Wanshan said they could copy the swindlers by targeting other sects.
• Lin Xuanyue released Lin Wanshan and warmed to the plan, while the elders gathered around to listen.