Chapter Summaries

Lin Wanshan and Ancestor Xuanyue planned to use a fake golden-armored army and the Demonic Artifact to extort other sects, but first they had to recover the artifact from a latrine. After Lin Wanshan blasted it out with an explosive talisman, the Red Glow Sect retrieved it and began preparing its extortion army.

• Lin Wanshan proposed copying the golden-armored army, planting the Demonic Artifact in other sects, and demanding spirit stones.
• Ancestor Xuanyue remembered that he had thrown the Demonic Artifact into a latrine near a small mortal city and ordered Lin Wanshan to retrieve it.
• Lin Wanshan tossed a Level Four Explosive Talisman into the latrine, blasting sewage over the group and burying him beneath the elders who fell on him.
• The explosion sent the Demonic Artifact flying out of the sewage, and the Red Glow Sect members gathered around it.
• Ancestor Xuanyue and the others returned to the sect grounds with the artifact and began organizing and drilling the Fake Emperor Pavilion Extortion Army.

Lin Wanshan formed a five-thousand-strong Silver-Armored Army, while Chun Xiaobai’s group continued extorting sacred lands until the lands joined forces and surrounded them. As danger closed in, Chun Xiaobai ordered everyone to remove their armor and dig, hoping to disguise themselves as people establishing a sect.

• Lin Wanshan trained more than five thousand sect members, then ordered silver armor modeled after the Emperor Pavilion’s design.
• Ye Liuli avoided newly founded sects and replenished her group’s supplies through safer extortion deals.
• Chun Xiaobai grew frustrated as Mu Qinglan repeatedly sent scouts to verify information before their next operations.
• Li Yuanqiu warned Chun Xiaobai that allied sacred lands had surrounded the area with tens of thousands of Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered his group to strip off their armor and dig so they could pretend to be preparing a sect site.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions disguised themselves as cultivators building a sect to evade Sacred Land search parties, and spent three days constructing a convincing compound. When Mu Qinglan warned that the area was no longer safe and Chun Xiaobai decided they should quit extorting the Sacred Lands, his followers protested that they still had dozens left to target.

• Chun Xiaobai ordered the elders to disguise themselves as workers establishing a sect and keep digging whenever Sacred Land searchers came near.
• Sacred Land elders and cultivators repeatedly inspected the mountain, but Chun Xiaobai's group kept up their act and escaped suspicion.
• After three days, the group had built a convincing sect compound, and Chun Xiaobai briefly considered turning it into Black Wind Stronghold before rejecting the idea.
• Mu Qinglan warned Chun Xiaobai that the Sacred Lands were watching the area and they should move, while Chun Xiaobai worried the Emperor Pavilion might intervene.
• Chun Xiaobai announced that they should retire from extortion, but Bai Jin'er, Mu Qinglan, Xiao Zhang, Li Qingfeng, and the others urged him to continue targeting the remaining Sacred Lands.

Chun Xiaobai decided to keep extorting the Sacred Lands rather than abandon the remaining wealth, and Mu Qinglan proposed a plan to evade their pursuit. The chapter ended with an elder accidentally calling Mu Qinglan “Sect Master.”

• Bai Jin'er and the elders persuaded Chun Xiaobai that Black Wind Stronghold needed the wealth to cover its future expenses and attract Stronghold Madams.
• Chun Xiaobai agreed to continue committing crimes and seize the remaining riches.
• The elders crowded around Chun Xiaobai with marriage proposals for their female relatives, while Bai Jin'er worried about gaining many rivals.
• Mu Qinglan warned that continuing to extort the Sacred Lands was dangerous and proposed luring their pursuers to other regions before returning to the Northern Twelve Provinces.
• An elder praised Mu Qinglan as the Sect Master, then realized he had let the title slip.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions began targeting top-tier sects for spirit stones while the Sacred Lands’ Vengeance Alliance searched for them in vain. The group reached the Central Twelve Provinces and extorted more than twenty sects in one night.

• Li Qingfeng, Zhang Xuanhe, Bai Jin'er, and Xiao Zhang persuaded Chun Xiaobai to target top-tier sects and take only spirit stones.
• Cangshan Daoist failed to reach several old friends, then left Yun Huoyue to find a place to drink alone.
• The Sacred Lands’ Vengeance Alliance grew to more than a hundred thousand Spirit Transformation cultivators but could not find Chun Xiaobai’s group.
• A Sacred Land elder remembered that Cangshan Daoist had contacted him before his sect was extorted, but dismissed the possibility that the diviner was involved.
• Chun Xiaobai’s group reached the Central Twelve Provinces and extorted more than twenty top-tier sects in one night, collecting huge amounts of spirit stones.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions collected spirit stones from sects across the Central Twelve Provinces, driving many to relocate and sparking widespread panic. As sects appealed to the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance for help, Ling Tianchen decided to charge each affected sect ten billion spirit stones for an investigation.

• Mu Qinglan and her companions celebrated collecting five trillion spirit stones, while Chun Xiaobai remained dissatisfied because he wanted Rare Treasures.
• Chun Xiaobai used Image Recording Stones to expose sects’ alleged ties to Demon Cultivators, forcing a dozen or twenty sects to move and change their names.
• News of the disappearing sects spread through the Central Twelve Provinces, and frightened representatives repeatedly urged the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance to investigate.
• Ling Tianchen kept the representatives waiting while polishing his Golden Abacus, reassuring them that he was assembling personnel without starting the investigation.
• Ling Tianchen asked the Left Protector and the Right Guardian how much to charge, and they proposed ten billion spirit stones from each of more than five thousand sects.
• Ling Tianchen calculated that the investigation could bring in fifty trillion spirit stones and imagined using the wealth to advance his cultivation beyond the Sacred Lands.

Ling Tianchen delayed the sect representatives before demanding twenty billion spirit stones from each to fund a death squad, while Mu Qinglan decided to visit him and claim a share of his fortune. The representatives were left stunned by his price.

• Ling Tianchen rejected ten billion spirit stones per sect and ordered his subordinates to wait three more days before demanding twenty billion from each.
• Chun Xiaobai’s group continued visiting sects and collecting spirit stones, while Mu Qinglan recalled Ling Tianchen’s greed and the information he had provided her.
• Mu Qinglan decided to visit Ling Tianchen in three days and squeeze half of his recent earnings out of him.
• After keeping the sect representatives waiting for three days, Ling Tianchen proposed sending a death squad to investigate the uncanny entity and asked each sect to provide one hundred Grand Supreme Elders or pay instead.
• When a Sect Master asked the investigation fee, Ling Tianchen named twenty billion spirit stones, shocking the representatives.

After news that five sects had vanished, Ling Tianchen collected twenty billion in investigation funds from frightened sects and considered how to make them pay again. Mu Qinglan then led Chun Xiaobai and the Black-Armored Army into the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance, arriving outside Ling Tianchen’s hall as he tallied his money.

• A messenger reported that five sects, including the Greenwood Sect, the Red Flame Sect, and the Heavenly River Sect, had vanished, prompting sect leaders to agree to Ling Tianchen’s twenty-billion investigation fee.
• The sects raised the money within a day, and Ling Tianchen counted it while deciding he should find another way to charge them.
• Mu Qinglan told Chun Xiaobai she knew a rich man from whom they could squeeze ten trillion, and he agreed to go with her.
• Mu Qinglan assembled more than two thousand Black-Armored Army members and led them toward the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance.
• Chun Xiaobai opened the Alliance’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Array, and Mu Qinglan’s group entered and approached Ling Tianchen’s hall.
• Mu Qinglan’s group hid behind flower beds after hearing Ling Tianchen tallying accounts, and Zhang Xuanhe nervously asked whether they were really going to do it.