Chapter Summaries

Chun Xiaobai forced Liu Changqing and his lackeys to hand over their Storage Bags, then challenged Captain Li when the Disciplinary Enforcement Team arrived to arrest him. The witnesses confirmed that Chun Xiaobai had dismantled Liu Changqing’s bones, leaving Captain Li ready to act against him.

• Chun Xiaobai stopped Liu Changqing’s lackeys from fleeing and made them apologize by handing over their Storage Bags to Fang Yuan.
• Chun Xiaobai reassembled Liu Changqing’s bones and intimidated him into surrendering his own Storage Bag to Fang Yuan.
• Captain Li arrived with the Disciplinary Enforcement Team and ordered Chun Xiaobai seized after Liu Changqing accused him of attacking the group and robbing them.
• Chun Xiaobai questioned Captain Li’s evidence and mocked the accusation, but Liu Changqing and several disciples testified that he had dismantled Liu Changqing’s bones twice.
• Captain Li asked Chun Xiaobai what excuse he had left after hearing the witnesses.

Chun Xiaobai challenged the Disciplinary Enforcement Team’s accusations after they found Liu Changqing uninjured, but Captain Li then ordered him arrested over a poisoning report. Chun Xiaobai attacked and dismantled Captain Li, leaving Liu Changqing fearing the consequences if he escaped.

• Chun Xiaobai argued that Liu Changqing showed no injuries, and Captain Li conceded that the assault charge lacked evidence.
• Captain Li accused Chun Xiaobai of secretly poisoning a fellow disciple and ordered the team to take him to the Disciplinary Hall.
• Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Treading Steps to reach Captain Li and shattered his bones, dropping him into a boneless heap.
• Liu Changqing realized he had provoked a dangerous bandit and feared Chun Xiaobai would take revenge if he escaped.

Chun Xiaobai beat Captain Li, tried to flee with his spoils, and was confronted by Hall Master Zhang, who ordered him to the Disciplinary Hall. Facing Hall Master Zhang’s overwhelming strength, Chun Xiaobai claimed he was having an affair with Yun Huoyue, leaving Zhang and the watching disciples stunned.

• Chun Xiaobai kicked Captain Li into the Disciplinary Enforcement Team and returned to his Cave Abode to pack his spoils.
• Chun Xiaobai found Hall Master Zhang examining Captain Li and admitted he had done it, while insisting it was self-defense.
• Hall Master Zhang ordered Chun Xiaobai to come to the Disciplinary Hall, and Chun Xiaobai drew his Large Ringed Saber to resist.
• Hall Master Zhang disarmed Chun Xiaobai with a wave of his hand and prepared to seize him.
• Chun Xiaobai shouted that he was having an affair with Yun Huoyue, causing Hall Master Zhang to stop and the crowd to stare in shock.

Chun Xiaobai bluffed Hall Master Zhang into fleeing by claiming Peak Master Yun would protect him, then shamelessly pretended Bai Jin'er was the woman he had spent the night with. Yun Huoyue arrived and examined Captain Li, discovering Chun Xiaobai’s astonishingly precise technique and wondering whether he might be the person she had been waiting for.

• Chun Xiaobai claimed Yun Huoyue would skin anyone who bullied him, frightening Hall Master Zhang into abandoning Captain Li and fleeing.
• Chun Xiaobai noticed Yun Huoyue standing behind him after the crowd fell silent.
• Chun Xiaobai grabbed Bai Jin'er’s hands and called her “little Yunyun,” then pretended he had only just noticed Yun Huoyue.
• Yun Huoyue ignored Chun Xiaobai and examined Captain Li, whose bones and meridians had been displaced without any damage to his skin or flesh.
• Yun Huoyue recognized the precision of Chun Xiaobai’s technique and wondered whether his exceptional divine soul meant he was the person she had been waiting for.

After Yun Huoyue drove away the other disciples with a warning that protected Green Bamboo Peak, Chun Xiaobai frightened off Liu Changqing and rejected the people trying to curry favor with him. He returned to his Cave Abode with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er, then worried that his exposed bone-dismantling skills had ruined his plan to secretly grow stronger and profit from the ranking big shots.

• Yun Huoyue warned disciples from other peaks to stay off Green Bamboo Peak and left, making the gathered disciples suspect Chun Xiaobai was having a fling with her.
• Liu Changqing fell to his knees and apologized to Chun Xiaobai, who ordered him and his followers to scram.
• Chun Xiaobai confronted the remaining spectators and sent Zhang Yan away when she tried to get close to him.
• Chun Xiaobai entered his Cave Abode with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er, and Fang Yuan praised him for winning over a Peak Master.
• Chun Xiaobai returned to the Cultivation Room and lamented that people on the rankings would now be wary of him.

After Liu Changqing exposed Chun Xiaobai’s bone-dismantling craft, Chun Xiaobai learned the Heaven-Sealing Finger and prepared for a nighttime job to recover his losses. Dressed in a garment sewn by Bai Jin'er, he slipped out alone and spotted Disciplinary Disciples drinking on patrol.

• Chun Xiaobai entered the Divine Altar and learned the three-strike Heaven-Sealing Finger before being forced out when his time ran out.
• After recovering with spirit herbs and a day of rest, Chun Xiaobai asked Bai Jin'er to alter black robes into a close-fitting Night-Walking Garment.
• Bai Jin'er finished sewing the garment in less than an hour, and Chun Xiaobai praised her work and gave her and Fang Yuan rooms in his Cave Abode.
• On a dark, cloudy night, Chun Xiaobai put on the Night-Walking Garment and his old black hood, then slipped out of the courtyard alone.
• Chun Xiaobai swept the area with his divine sense and spotted several Disciplinary Disciples drinking at a bend in the mountain path.

Chun Xiaobai sneaked onto Cinnabar Glow Peak to rob wealthy disciples and discovered a secret trade in forbidden pills. The chapter ended with a buyer revealing that he planned to drug Bai Jin'er of Green Bamboo Peak.

• Chun Xiaobai sneaked past the mountain gate and climbed to the summit of Cinnabar Glow Peak, avoiding its poorer residents.
• Chun Xiaobai knocked out two Cinnabar Glow Peak disciples and stole their Storage Bags.
• Chun Xiaobai spotted a wealthy disciple surnamed Xu, but hid when the man challenged someone in the darkness.
• A scrawny disciple approached Senior Brother Xu and bought ten Bone-Eroding Soul-Draining Pills with spirit stones.
• The scrawny disciple revealed that Bai Jin'er of Green Bamboo Peak was his target, and Senior Brother Xu frowned.

Chun Xiaobai ambushed disciples on Green Bamboo Peak with the Heaven-Sealing Finger and robbed them of their Storage Bags. By dawn, he had captured thirty disciples and was sneaking down the mountain, where he found the entrance guards missing again.

• Senior Brother Xu bought pills from a scrawny disciple, but Chun Xiaobai knocked them both down and froze Senior Brother Xu before he could activate a communication talisman.
• Chun Xiaobai took both men’s Storage Bags and beat the scrawny disciple after learning that Bai Jin'er’s protector was away.
• Chun Xiaobai used the Heaven-Sealing Finger to immobilize lone disciples and rob them as they passed beneath his tree.
• Overnight, Chun Xiaobai amassed thirty captured disciples and Storage Bags before sneaking down Green Bamboo Peak at dawn.
• At the foot of the peak, Chun Xiaobai found that the illicit lovebirds who guarded the entrance had disappeared again.

Dan Chenzi and Lei Xiao examined thirty Cinnabar Glow Peak disciples who had been robbed and sealed in place, but neither could break the strange array. The chapter left the disciples still trapped as both experts failed to release them.

• Chun Xiaobai swaggered up the mountain after abandoning his attempt to hide.
• Dan Chenzi examined the thirty motionless disciples and realized they had been sealed from the inside out rather than struck by an Immobility Spell.
• Lei Xiao arrived with Disciplinary Disciples and discovered the victims had been robbed and their bodies locked in absolute stillness.
• Dan Chenzi used Spirit-Severing Finger on one disciple, but the seal remained in place.
• Lei Xiao tried Spirit-Severing Finger himself, but the disciple remained motionless.

Dan Chenzi, Lei Xiao, and Chen Xuan investigated a strange self-contained Sealing Formation that had immobilized several disciples, but their experiments accidentally killed two of them. The Peak Masters suspected Heavenly Baleful Valley was responsible and wondered whether its infamous sealing arts had struck again.

• Dan Chenzi and Lei Xiao tried numerous methods to free the immobilized disciples and discovered that the Sealing Formation operated without outside spiritual qi.
• Lei Xiao summoned Chen Xuan, who examined the formation and found it branded directly into the disciples’ meridians.
• More than a dozen Peak Masters arrived and investigated the sealed disciples, injuring them as they tested the formation.
• An onlooker noticed Senior Brother Li had stopped breathing, and the Peak Masters realized they had poked two disciples to death.
• Dan Chenzi ordered the disciples moved to Cinnabar Glow Peak, and the Peak Masters suspected Heavenly Baleful Valley was behind the formation.

Chun Xiaobai’s raid on Cinnabar Glow Peak prompted an Outer Sect lockdown, but he still planned another robbery. Fang Yuan chose to stand by his benefactor and praised him as a king worthy of the name.

• Dan Chenzi realized the immobilized Cinnabar Glow Peak disciples were a deliberate provocation by Heavenly Baleful Valley.
• Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan learned that a Bandit Cultivator had robbed thirty disciples on Cinnabar Glow Peak, and Bai Jin'er suspected Chun Xiaobai was responsible.
• Chun Xiaobai admitted he had robbed thirty disciples and offered to share his windfall with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er.
• Fang Yuan warned Chun Xiaobai that the Outer Sect had been locked down and that the raid might have stirred powerful elders.
• Chun Xiaobai regretted that he could not easily rob again that night, but Fang Yuan praised his audacity and decided to remain at his side.

Chun Xiaobai rewarded Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er with stolen treasure, then returned to his Cultivation Room to sort through the loot and consider fleeing the Sect before his forged identity was exposed. He decided he had to use up the stolen goods before making his escape.

• Chun Xiaobai gave Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er piles of treasure, and both accepted them despite Bai Jin'er's guilt.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to keep watch outside, and Bai Jin'er called him “Your Majesty.”
• Chun Xiaobai judged Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to be promising recruits for his future stronghold because of their flaws, greed, and courage.
• Chun Xiaobai examined the stolen spirit stones, pills, and magical artifacts, finding the artifacts and pills disappointingly low quality.
• Chun Xiaobai wondered why the Sect's Peak Masters and elders had been alerted, concluded he might need to flee, and decided to use up the stolen loot first.

Chun Xiaobai used his stolen riches to raise his cultivation, consuming Spirit Stones, pills, and Spirit Herbs in pursuit of the blood refining sixth layer. After swallowing all his pills without apparent harm, he suspected he had an immunity to poison and began eating the Spirit Herbs.

• Chun Xiaobai dumped out his accumulated loot, sorted it, and kept the Spirit Stones, pills, and Spirit Herbs for himself.
• Chun Xiaobai shattered sixty thousand Spirit Stones and absorbed their Spiritual Qi, but his cultivation remained at the blood refining fifth layer.
• Chun Xiaobai ate all six hundred bottles of pills, more than doubled his strength, and barely reached the threshold of the blood refining sixth layer.
• Chun Xiaobai worried the pills might have poisoned him, then concluded his constitution might make him immune to poison because he felt fine.
• Chun Xiaobai opened the Jade Boxes and began eating the thirty Spirit Herbs raw.

After consuming all twenty remaining spirit herbs, Chun Xiaobai opened a divine treasury and gained strength powerful enough to overwhelm Foundation Establishment cultivators. He took Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er out of the Azure Cloud Sect’s service and prepared to lead them down the mountain to make a fortune.

• Chun Xiaobai swallowed twenty spirit herbs, endured a painful transformation, and opened a divine treasury.
• Chun Xiaobai accidentally injured Fang Yuan by slapping his shoulder and apologized after Bai Jin'er warned that interrupting cultivation could cause qi deviation.
• Chun Xiaobai announced that he would take Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er down the mountain to strike it rich.
• Chun Xiaobai told Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to leave the Azure Cloud Sect and follow him, despite the Sect's rules against leaving.
• Fang Yuan agreed to leave the Sect, and Bai Jin'er reluctantly agreed as well, wondering if Chun Xiaobai's generosity had swayed her.

Chun Xiaobai learned that Green Bamboo Peak had been conscripted to attend the Demon-Slaying Assembly and grew interested in its rewards. He realized the demon accused of robbing Cinnabar Glow Peak was probably himself.

• Chun Xiaobai, Fang Yuan, and Bai Jin'er left the Cave Abode and found disciples gathered around a Conscription Order at Green Bamboo Peak.
• Fang Yuan explained that the Sect issued compulsory assignments each year, and Chun Xiaobai seized the order after hearing that demons could carry large bounties.
• Chun Xiaobai read that Green Bamboo Peak had to send ten disciples with Elder Sun to the Demon-Slaying Assembly and asked what the assembly was.
• Fang Yuan explained that the Demon-Slaying Alliance rewarded demon kills, but that righteous Sects sometimes accused hostile factions of colluding with demons to justify attacking them.
• The disciples said the first-place prize had been raised to an Earth Tier Magical Artifact, a hundred thousand spirit stones, and a Foundation Establishment Pill after a demon robbed disciples from Cinnabar Glow Peak.
• Chun Xiaobai realized the demon accused of the robbery was likely himself.

Chun Xiaobai accepted the Demon-Slaying Assembly mission, seeing it as a chance to profit from the sects gathering to attack their supposed enemy. He chose nine disciples to join him and postponed leaving the Azure Cloud Sect until they had built up enough capital.

• Chun Xiaobai suspected Cinnabar Glow Peak had blamed him to justify an alliance attack, then decided the Demon-Slaying Assembly could be a lucrative job.
• Wu Liang asked to join Chun Xiaobai with Lin Yue, and Chun Xiaobai agreed; Li Xuanfeng and other disciples also volunteered.
• Chun Xiaobai picked nine disciples to make a ten-person team and told them to meet again the morning after tomorrow.
• Fang Yuan asked whether they were still leaving the sect, and Chun Xiaobai said they would strike out on their own after the mission and once they had enough capital.
• Chun Xiaobai noted Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er’s improved cultivation and drove off several female disciples who sneered at Bai Jin'er.

Chun Xiaobai led Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to join a compulsory demon-slaying expedition, then forced his way into the Inner Sect cabins aboard the flying ship. After Wu Liang claimed Chun Xiaobai was having an affair with Yun Huoyue, the guards let his followers enter too.

• Chun Xiaobai gathered Fang Yuan, Bai Jin'er, and seven others for the expedition, while the Task Hall representative led them to the main peak's square.
• The disciples boarded a flying ship, where Inner Sect disciples claimed the cabins and left Outer Sect disciples on the crowded deck.
• Chun Xiaobai confronted the cabin guards, and Lei Xiao's respectful greeting convinced them to let Chun Xiaobai, Fang Yuan, and Bai Jin'er inside.
• Wu Liang told the guards that Chun Xiaobai was having an affair with Yun Huoyue, frightening them into admitting Wu Liang, Lin Yue, and the other followers as well.

Chun Xiaobai traveled with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to the Demon-Slaying Assembly, where he decided to wait for a larger opportunity rather than risk a robbery aboard the flying boat. After five days, they reached a beautiful mountain destination, and Chun Xiaobai discovered that Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er looked strangely exhausted.

• Chun Xiaobai explored the flying boat's enormous inner marketplace and chose an empty rest room with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er.
• Chun Xiaobai rejected the idea of robbing the Inner Sect disciples and told Fang Yuan to find out where the Demon-Slaying Assembly would be held.
• Bai Jin'er mistook Chun Xiaobai's request for shoulder kneading as an attempt to take advantage of her, then gave him an uncomfortable massage.
• After five days, Chun Xiaobai left the rest room with Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er as the flying boat slowed near a mountain paradise.
• Chun Xiaobai accused the righteous sects of using the assembly as an excuse to seize territory and asked Fang Yuan what had happened during the journey.
• Chun Xiaobai noticed Fang Yuan looked haggard and Bai Jin'er's hands were blistered, then asked what had happened to them.

Chun Xiaobai learned that the Demon-Slaying Assembly targeted the wealthy Heavenly Baleful Valley and resolved to seize an opportunity to build his own stronghold. As the Azure Cloud Sect’s Flying Boat reached the assembly, an elder announced that the campaign would offer rewards as well as danger.

• Chun Xiaobai scolded Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er for letting Inner Sect disciples bully them, promised to settle the score, and told them to fight back or seek his help.
• Fang Yuan explained that the Heavenly Baleful Valley was an ancient, powerful sect famed for its Puppet Arts and reportedly had a million disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai learned that the Azure Cloud Sect ranked below the top thousand among the Ten Thousand Sects, which referred to the region's oldest and most established sects.
• Chun Xiaobai resolved to score enough money to recruit people and build his own stronghold.
• The Azure Cloud Sect's Flying Boat arrived at the Demon-Slaying Assembly, where an elder warned the disciples about the campaign and promised additional alliance rewards.

Azure Cloud Sect disciples learned that the demon suppression expedition offered a Heaven Tier magical artifact, while Chun Xiaobai dismissed the reward and tried to gather his men. When Wu Liang sided with Inner Sect disciples, Chun Xiaobai confronted them, and the senior brother abruptly tried to appease him before Chun Xiaobai caught his wrist as he moved to strike Wu Liang.

• An elder announced that the expedition’s top Alliance reward was a Heaven Tier magical artifact, exciting the disciples aboard the Flying Boat.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Fang Yuan about the elders and learned that Lu Qingshan led the expedition, then sent Fang Yuan to ask Wu Liang whether he would join their group.
• Wu Liang refused to leave the Inner Sect disciples after Lin Yue tugged at his clothes, and Fang Yuan reported his decision to Chun Xiaobai.
• Chun Xiaobai grabbed Wu Liang by the collar and challenged him, prompting an Inner Sect disciple and his group to confront Chun Xiaobai.
• After a disciple whispered information to the senior brother, he changed his attitude and tried to slap Wu Liang, but Chun Xiaobai seized his wrist and demanded to know why he dared hit one of his men.