Chapter Summaries

Chun Xiaobai escaped Yun Huoyue, stole back the Foundation Establishment Pill, and decided she might be interested in him and could serve as his backing. When he returned to his Cave Abode, he found five disciples challenging him and demanding his Storage Bags and Cave Abode if he lost.

• Yun Huoyue questioned Chun Xiaobai about his cultivation and spying, then let him leave and wondered whether his naturally gifted soul was the one she had been waiting for.
• Chun Xiaobai returned to Yun Huoyue's residence, took the Foundation Establishment Pill, and used Heaven-Treading Steps to escape.
• Chun Xiaobai suspected Yun Huoyue had fallen for him and decided to stay at the sect because he thought she could protect him.
• Chun Xiaobai found five disciples confronting Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan outside his Cave Abode and offering their Storage Bags as stakes in a challenge.
• Chun Xiaobai used Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye on the challengers' Storage Bags and judged that they had little wealth.

Chun Xiaobai learned that Green Bamboo Peak’s lax rules let disciples from other peaks challenge for its Cave Abodes, limiting his plans to collect Storage Bags. Bai Jin'er told him he could instead challenge higher-ranked disciples at the Martial Practice Platform, and he eagerly seized on the opportunity.

• Chun Xiaobai drove away five challengers after Disciplinary Disciples reminded them he had already accepted a challenge that day.
• Chun Xiaobai studied the Outer Sect Genius Ranking and wondered why Shi Lei from Sunset Glow Peak had challenged him for a Cave Abode on Green Bamboo Peak.
• Bai Jin'er explained that Peak Master Yun Huoyue did not interfere in disciples’ affairs, so outsiders could challenge for Green Bamboo Peak’s Cave Abodes while other peaks barred outsiders.
• Bai Jin'er told Chun Xiaobai that lower-ranked disciples could challenge higher-ranked disciples on the Martial Practice Platform, where ranked disciples had to accept one challenge each month.
• Chun Xiaobai became excited about using the ranking challenges to earn money and accidentally staggered Bai Jin'er when he clapped her shoulder.

Chun Xiaobai went to the Martial Arts Arena to make his name on the genius ranking, but learned that his earlier victory over Cheng Haoxuan did not qualify. The chapter ended with Elder Fu staring at him after Chun Xiaobai called the number ninety-five-ranked disciple too weak.

• Chun Xiaobai told Bai Jin'er not to sweat the small stuff after touching her, while she blushed and questioned whether he found her attractive.
• Chun Xiaobai inspected his Storage Bag and found only battered-looking weapons and unfamiliar low-grade pills, with no spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai brought Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to the Martial Arts Arena to challenge a ranked disciple.
• Fang Yuan explained that challenges on Green Bamboo Peak did not count toward the genius ranking and introduced Elder Fu as its overseer.
• Chun Xiaobai asked to challenge number one hundred, then number ninety-nine, but Elder Fu said both disciples were absent.
• Elder Fu offered number ninety-five, Cheng Haoxuan, as an opponent, but Chun Xiaobai said he had already beaten him and demanded someone higher-ranked.

Chun Xiaobai reluctantly chose to challenge Lu Mang, ranked fiftieth on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, after learning that no lower-ranked challengers were available. Lu Mang and Chun Xiaobai traded insults before their match, which Elder Fu arranged to take place on the arena.

• Elder Fu told Chun Xiaobai that Lu Mang, ranked fiftieth, was the only available disciple he could challenge.
• Chun Xiaobai decided to challenge Lu Mang despite worrying that starting at rank fifty would cost him potential Storage Bags from lower-ranked disciples.
• Lu Mang arrived at the Heavenly Prodigy Arena and angrily demanded to meet his challenger while disciples gathered to watch.
• Chun Xiaobai identified himself as Lu Mang's challenger and mocked his build, provoking Lu Mang to summon his tiger-headed saber.
• Elder Fu stopped them from fighting off the arena and ordered them to prepare for their match, but both said they needed no preparation.

Chun Xiaobai registered for his match against Lu Mang after pretending he had forgotten his Identity Token, then questioned the rules, rewards, and whether he could cancel. When Lu Mang challenged him to name what he wanted, Chun Xiaobai proposed that they wager all their possessions, and Lu Mang accepted.

• Chun Xiaobai told Elder Fu he had forgotten his Identity Token, and Elder Fu registered him by name while Bai Jin'er worried he would be exposed as a servant disciple.
• Elder Fu explained the arena rules, and Chun Xiaobai asked whether sneak attacks were allowed and what he would gain from winning.
• After learning that ranking up brought no immediate reward, Chun Xiaobai asked to cancel the challenge, angering Elder Fu and the watching disciples.
• Lu Mang offered to wager his Tiger-Head Great Saber, but Chun Xiaobai proposed wagering their Storage Bags instead.
• Lu Mang decided Chun Xiaobai was bluffing to avoid a fight and agreed to wager everything they owned.

Chun Xiaobai wagered his fortune against Lu Mang and entered their duel on the Heavenly Prodigy Platform, pretending to be weak and frightened. He easily endured Lu Mang’s saber strike while faking being thrown back, leaving the spectators cheering for Lu Mang.

• Elder Fu accepted Chun Xiaobai and Lu Mang’s Storage Bags as the stakes and warned them that the wager could not be withdrawn.
• Fang Yuan encouraged Chun Xiaobai, while Bai Jin'er worried that he could not defeat Lu Mang.
• Chun Xiaobai and Lu Mang took their positions, and Lu Mang charged with his Tiger-Head Long Saber as Chun Xiaobai ran around the arena.
• Chun Xiaobai let his movement falter, prompting Lu Mang to launch a blood-red saber spell at him.
• Chun Xiaobai blocked the spell without being moved, then pretended to stagger backward as the spectators cheered for Lu Mang.

Chun Xiaobai used his speed and a hidden technique to make Lu Mang fall off the platform. Lu Mang claimed he had only lost his footing, but Chun Xiaobai declared victory before the baffled crowd.

• Lu Mang chased Chun Xiaobai around the platform and wore himself out while Chun Xiaobai pretended to flee.
• Chun Xiaobai backed into a corner and threatened to jump, provoking Lu Mang to grab him.
• Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Treading Steps to evade Lu Mang and flicked his core meridian with Heaven-Rending Hand-Sinew-Severing.
• Lu Mang lost his balance and fell off the platform, leaving the watching disciples and Elder Fu confused.
• Lu Mang insisted he had only lost his footing, and Chun Xiaobai announced that he had won.

Chun Xiaobai won his wager against Lu Mang and provoked the crowd into demanding another match, so Elder Fu summoned Wang Shan to challenge him. When Wang Shan arrived, Chun Xiaobai dodged his gaze, leaving the disciples to mock him as a coward.

• Elder Fu upheld the contest rules, declared Chun Xiaobai the winner, and handed him the four Storage Bags at stake.
• Chun Xiaobai celebrated his winnings while Lu Mang and the other disciples seethed over their loss.
• After the crowd taunted him to face Wang Shan, Chun Xiaobai loudly accepted a challenge and wagered everything he owned.
• Elder Fu contacted Wang Shan, who ranked forty-ninth on the heavenly prodigy ranking, and Wang Shan soon arrived at the Martial Arts Arena.
• Chun Xiaobai avoided Wang Shan's gaze, and the disciples mocked him for seeming afraid.

Chun Xiaobai accepted Wang Shan’s challenge and used a large stockpile of talismans to keep the ranked disciple on the defensive. The fight continued as Chun Xiaobai concealed his real strength and Wang Shan struggled to counter the barrage.

• Chun Xiaobai and Wang Shan wagered their Storage Bags, and Elder Fu registered their challenge.
• Chun Xiaobai entered the Challenge Platform while Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er were surrounded by angry disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai attacked Wang Shan with Fireball, Wind Blade, and Vine-Winding Talismans.
• Wang Shan raised a Gang Qi Shield, broke the vines, and dodged the talisman attacks.
• Chun Xiaobai continued bombarding Wang Shan, while Lu Mang regretted seeing his saved talismans squandered and Elder Fu wished he had told Wang Shan to hit harder.

Chun Xiaobai overwhelmed Wang Shan with talismans, humiliating and exhausting the ranked Outer Sect disciple until he fled the arena platform to escape a supposed barrage of supreme-grade Lightning Talismans. Chun Xiaobai then revealed that the talismans were only low-grade Fireball Talismans.

• Wang Shan dodged Chun Xiaobai’s talismans and tried to close the distance, but Chun Xiaobai struck him with a Lightning Talisman that made his hair stand on end.
• Chun Xiaobai exhausted his first stack of talismans, then produced another stack and forced Wang Shan back with more attacks.
• As Wang Shan’s spiritual power dwindled, Chun Xiaobai taunted him and continued pelting him with talismans until Wang Shan charged through the barrage.
• Wang Shan reached Chun Xiaobai and attacked with Sword Qi, but Chun Xiaobai dodged his slashes near the edge of the platform.
• Chun Xiaobai threatened Wang Shan with ten supposed supreme-grade Lightning Talismans, so Wang Shan leaped off the platform to escape.
• Chun Xiaobai told Wang Shan that the talismans were actually low-grade Fireball Talismans.

Chun Xiaobai defeated Wang Shan when Wang Shan jumped off the Challenge Platform and conceded, then collected his winnings while the disciples fumed. Egged on by Fang Yuan and the crowd, Chun Xiaobai agreed to keep challenging, and Elder Fu sent several messages to arrange what came next.

• Wang Shan spat blood and conceded after Chun Xiaobai’s Fireball Talismans forced him off the Challenge Platform.
• Chun Xiaobai defended his use of trump cards, and Elder Fu announced that Chun Xiaobai had won.
• Chun Xiaobai collected Wang Shan’s Storage Bag and gloated over the valuables inside, leaving Wang Shan nearly collapsing again.
• A disciple challenged Chun Xiaobai to a fight to the death, but Chun Xiaobai refused and exchanged a knowing look with Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan and the disciples urged Chun Xiaobai to challenge again, and Chun Xiaobai agreed.
• Elder Fu sent several messages through his Communication Token after Chun Xiaobai agreed to continue.

Chun Xiaobai drew a crowd after winning two fights with talismans and faced challenges from Han Fei and Xu Wei. He tried to delay the match until he recovered, while Elder Fu recognized the scheme he had used against Lu Mang.

• News of Chun Xiaobai's consecutive victories spread, and disciples gathered to see him defeated.
• Xu Wei and Han Fei arrived, learned that Chun Xiaobai had relied on talismans, and confronted him.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and saw that Han Fei and Xu Wei possessed great wealth.
• Chun Xiaobai flattered Han Fei and Xu Wei, then asked to rest for two days before challenging them.
• Elder Fu recognized Chun Xiaobai's familiar tactic, while Chun Xiaobai refused to return the Storage Bags he had won.
• Fang Yuan urged Chun Xiaobai to take pills and accept the challenge, and Chun Xiaobai pretended to hesitate.

Chun Xiaobai drew a crowd into staking their Storage Bags on challenges, using his reputation for crooked wins to bait stronger disciples into joining. After seven prodigies arrived and demanded a fight, his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye revealed that their Storage Bags were exceptionally valuable.

• Chun Xiaobai refused to risk his five Heavenly Prodigy Ranking Storage Bags against a single challenger and dismissed the poorer disciples’ proposed stakes.
• A disciple revealed that Cheng Haoxuan and Shi Lei had both lost to Chun Xiaobai, while others accused him of winning through sneak attacks and rule-bending.
• Chun Xiaobai insisted his tactics were allowed and challenged the crowd to gather five Genius Ranking Storage Bags if they wanted him to fight.
• The disciples called in allies, and Han Fei, Xu Wei, and other arriving prodigies agreed to pool their stakes despite being ranked below fiftieth.
• The assembled disciples presented five prodigies’ Storage Bags and pressured Chun Xiaobai to accept, while he secretly assessed the seven new arrivals and saw their wealth.

Chun Xiaobai agreed to another wagered challenge, this time against Xu Wei, while setting rules that barred her from weapons and him from talismans. Elder Fu grew increasingly suspicious that Chun Xiaobai was targeting the disciples’ wealth, but he accepted the wager and sent them to the stage.

• Hou Liang persuaded Chun Xiaobai to accept a challenge with seven Storage Bags in the pot.
• Chun Xiaobai chose Xu Wei as his opponent, and she accepted.
• Chun Xiaobai brought out a stack of talismans, prompting the disciples to negotiate restrictions for the match.
• Xu Wei agreed not to use weapons or defensive magical artifacts, and Chun Xiaobai agreed not to use talismans.
• Chun Xiaobai and Han Fei’s group handed their Storage Bags to Elder Fu, who sent Chun Xiaobai and Xu Wei to the stage.

Chun Xiaobai fought Xu Wei by hurling enchanted swords and using his footwork and meridian attacks to exploit her openings. As Xu Wei’s legs went numb and a sword threatened her dantian, she used the Object-Controlling Technique to seize a sword and block it.

• Chun Xiaobai opened the fight by throwing enchanted swords at Xu Wei, forcing her to dodge while the crowd condemned his tactics.
• Xu Wei spotted a gap in Chun Xiaobai’s attacks and charged, but Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Treading Steps to evade her palm and strike the meridians in her thigh with Heaven-Rending Hand.
• Chun Xiaobai continued throwing swords while Xu Wei’s legs grew numb, then groped her other thigh when she tried to close in.
• Chun Xiaobai launched a sword toward Xu Wei’s dantian, and she used the Object-Controlling Technique to pull a nearby sword into her hand and block it.

Chun Xiaobai defeated Xu Wei after she broke their no-weapons agreement, then denied poisoning her when Elder Fu found no evidence. He collected twelve Storage Bags and celebrated his winnings with Fang Yuan.

• Xu Wei accused Chun Xiaobai of poisoning her with Muscle-Softening Powder after he called out her use of a weapon.
• Elder Fu examined Xu Wei and found no poison or meridian damage, then declared Chun Xiaobai the winner.
• Xu Wei protested the result, but Elder Fu told her to seek another examination at the Medicine Affairs Hall if she disagreed.
• Elder Fu awarded Chun Xiaobai twelve Storage Bags, and Chun Xiaobai asked whether the resources would carry him to Foundation Establishment.
• Chun Xiaobai brought the Storage Bags to Fang Yuan and celebrated how easily he had won resources from the genius ranking.

Chun Xiaobai left the Black Tortoise Arena after demanding that future challengers gather twelve Storage Bags, while the disciples looked to Li Kuang to defeat him. Back at the Cave Abode, he shared some of his winnings with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er, then began looking for more wealthy targets.

• Chun Xiaobai accepted future challenges only if his opponents gathered twelve Storage Bags, then left the arena with Fang Yuan.
• The disciples anticipated Li Kuang's return and hoped the ranked fighter would defeat Chun Xiaobai.
• Elder Fu recognized that Chun Xiaobai was concealing his abilities and deliberately luring challengers into losing their wealth.
• Chun Xiaobai brought twelve Storage Bags to the Cave Abode and gave one each to Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er.
• Chun Xiaobai sent Bai Jin'er to fetch food and wine and ordered Fang Yuan to identify wealthy disciples among the top thirty-nine on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking.

After defeating several Heavenly Prodigy Ranking disciples and taking their Storage Bags, Chun Xiaobai became the target of Outer Sect rumors, resentment, and greed. He sorted his spoils and refined fifty thousand spirit stones, but remained just short of advancing to the fifth level of blood refining.

• Chun Xiaobai gathered the remaining Storage Bags and gleefully dumped their contents in his cultivation room.
• Disciples spread rumors that Chun Xiaobai had won through poison and underhanded tricks, and a Punitive League petitioned the Sect's higher-ups to punish him.
• The Sect's higher-ups dismissed the petition, while disciples and low-ranking Inner Sect members began plotting to rob Chun Xiaobai of his twelve Storage Bags.
• Chun Xiaobai sorted his spoils, found more than three hundred bottles of pills and over thirty spirit herbs, and complained that the disciples had carried only about fifty thousand spirit stones in total.
• Chun Xiaobai pulverized the fifty thousand spirit stones and used the Martial God Art to refine their essence, but his cultivation rose only to just short of the fifth level.
• Chun Xiaobai noticed the third chief had not returned with the food and wine, then decided to use his momentum to attempt a breakthrough.

After consuming ten spirit herbs, Chun Xiaobai broke through to the mid Blood Refinement stage and returned to find Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er bound outside his Cave Abode. He confronted Liu Changqing, who had organized the crowd, and left the chapter holding him by the neck as the surrounding disciples prepared to intervene.

• Chun Xiaobai refined ten spirit herbs, broke through to the mid Blood Refinement stage, and marveled at his strength and recovery.
• Chun Xiaobai left his Cave Abode to look for Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er after they failed to return.
• Chun Xiaobai found Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er tied up and hanging from a tree outside his courtyard, surrounded by angry disciples.
• Liu Changqing stepped forward and admitted that he had tied them up, prompting Chun Xiaobai to seize him by the neck.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er urged Chun Xiaobai to stop, while the surrounding disciples gathered spiritual power, ready to rush in.

Chun Xiaobai rescued Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er by repeatedly breaking and restoring Liu Changqing’s bones, terrifying Liu Changqing’s disciples into surrendering. The disciples freed Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan thanked Chun Xiaobai.

• Chun Xiaobai broke Liu Changqing’s bones with his Rending People technique, leaving him limp on the ground.
• Chun Xiaobai restored Liu Changqing’s bones, then immediately dismantled him again when Liu Changqing tried to speak.
• Chun Xiaobai frightened Liu Changqing’s disciples into backing down and demanded they release Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er.
• The disciples untied Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er and lowered them from the tree.
• Fang Yuan tore off his ropes, limped to Chun Xiaobai, and thanked him for saving his life.