Chapter Summaries

Chun Xiaobai rebuked an Inner Sect disciple, gathered the disciples who had been ostracized, and began scouting wealthy targets aboard the Flying Boats. Meanwhile, representatives from over a hundred Sects assembled to launch a mostly symbolic campaign against the Heavenly Baleful Valley, and Alliance Envoy Zhang arrived.

• Chun Xiaobai drove off the Inner Sect disciple who had tried to bully Wu Liang and the others.
• Lin Yue and Wu Liang apologized to Chun Xiaobai, and Chun Xiaobai ordered Li Xuanfeng and the others to join his group.
• Chun Xiaobai told Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er to gather information about the attending Sects and identify powerful, wealthy targets.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to spot several dozen potential targets among the nearby Flying Boats.
• Representatives from over a hundred Sects gathered to discuss a campaign against the Heavenly Baleful Valley, and someone announced Alliance Envoy Zhang's arrival.

Envoy Zhang announced the Demon-Slaying Alliance’s Level Three operation, offering alliance-dues offsets and a Heaven Tier artifact to the top sect. On the Azure Cloud Sect’s flying boat, Ma Wei revealed the operation would center on the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits, stirring the disciples with the prospect of claiming its ancient treasures.

• Envoy Zhang explained that only cultivators below the Golden Core Stage could participate and announced that mission contributions could offset up to half of a sect’s alliance dues.
• Envoy Zhang named a lower-grade Heaven Tier Fire Spirit Sword and five million spirit stones as the reward for first place.
• Lu Qingshan returned to the flying boat with eight elders, and Ma Wei announced that the Azure Cloud Sect had mobilized more than twelve thousand disciples and laid out team rewards.
• Chun Xiaobai kicked Fang Yuan and promised to lead his team to an even greater fortune than the sect’s rewards.
• Ma Wei identified the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits as the operation’s central location, and the disciples realized they might fight over its ancient blessed land.

Chun Xiaobai learned that the Azure Cloud Sect’s expedition to the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits was meant to probe its dangers and test the Heavenly Baleful Valley, leaving disciples like him as expendable scouts. As the fleet approached the mountain, he ignored the rush to form teams and refused Fang Yuan’s suggestion to recruit more helpers.

• Elder Ma Wei announced that the Demon-Slaying Alliance aimed to seize the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits and let disciples keep half the treasures they found.
• Elder Ma Wei warned that the mountain held deadly restrictions and that rival sect disciples could also turn on one another for treasure and merit.
• After hearing the mountain’s history, Chun Xiaobai concluded the expedition was using disciples as cannon fodder to test an ancient cave abode and the Heavenly Baleful Valley’s strength.
• Lu Qingshan rallied the disciples, and the Flying Boat fleet continued toward the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits.
• Chun Xiaobai stayed apart as disciples formed teams and refused Fang Yuan’s suggestion to recruit helpers.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions arrived at the dangerous Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits, where Chun delayed entering the forest to review their intelligence and assess the other disciples. He spotted the Mystic Ice Palace Saintess Qin Ruoxue, whose status and treasures caught his attention.

• The Flying Boats reached the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits, and Chun Xiaobai recognized its ancient wilderness and demonic beasts as major threats.
• As the disciples descended and rushed toward the mountains, Chun Xiaobai brought Fang Yuan and the others safely to the ground and waited until the other groups had entered the forest.
• Chun Xiaobai asked Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er for the information they had gathered, while Wu Liang admitted his group had failed to identify the talented disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye to survey the departing disciples and spotted a beautiful woman with a faint blue glow above her head.
• Li Xuanfeng identified the woman as Qin Ruoxue, the Saintess of the Mystic Ice Palace, and showed Chun Xiaobai her portrait in a booklet.

Chun Xiaobai led Fang Yuan, Bai Jin'er, and the others into the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits, where he revealed that he planned to rob other sect teams rather than complete missions. He forced his uneasy companions to join him, leaving the group committed to his scheme.

• Chun Xiaobai led his group into the forest while reassuring them that he would keep them safe.
• The group saw two sect teams fight over a spirit herb, which was destroyed in the battle.
• Chun Xiaobai guided everyone to a mountain peak and announced that they would rob people for money instead of hunting beasts or doing missions.
• Chun Xiaobai threatened the group by smashing a large tree, and Fang Yuan urged them to join the plan.
• Li Xuanfeng agreed to follow Chun Xiaobai's orders.

Chun Xiaobai forced the hesitant Green Bamboo Peak disciples to join his bandit crew and laid out a plan to rob teams after they gathered spirit herbs in the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits. He assigned scouting and lookout duties, leaving Wu Liang and the others as the combat division.

• Wu Liang and Lin Yue agreed to follow Chun Xiaobai, while Zhao Gang and three other Green Bamboo Peak disciples tried to back out until Fang Yuan drew his sword.
• Chun Xiaobai warned the four disciples not to refuse again, then announced that the group would gather startup funds to establish a stronghold.
• Chun Xiaobai planned to wait until teams had collected spirit herbs and treasures before ambushing them.
• Chun Xiaobai assigned Fang Yuan to gather information and Bai Jin'er to keep watch and raise the alarm.
• Chun Xiaobai designated Wu Liang and the others as the combat division, alarming them at the prospect of fighting.

Chun Xiaobai equipped his inexperienced squad and led them through the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits, avoiding danger while assessing the strength of Foundation Establishment cultivators. The group continued deeper into the mountain as Chun Xiaobai’s divine sense expanded to twenty li.

• Chun Xiaobai warned the squad to handle only their own assignments, then gave each member two weapons and fifty usable Talismans.
• Fang Yuan hunted an Explosive Pig, and the squad prepared a barbecue before resting on the hill overnight.
• The next day, Chun Xiaobai led the squad behind the main force and saw signs of brutal battles, including stripped corpses and destruction left by monster beasts.
• Chun Xiaobai judged that his movement technique and Heaven-Sealing Finger could help him challenge some Foundation Establishment cultivators, but he prioritized growing stronger.
• After two days without encountering a monster beast, Bai Jin'er asked why the route was so safe, while Chun Xiaobai kept secret that his divine sense had doubled in range to twenty li.

Chun Xiaobai led his companions to ambush a group of sect disciples and plunder their belongings. After escaping to a mountain hollow with twenty-five Storage Bags, the group realized how profitable robbery was compared with Sect missions.

• Chun Xiaobai told Bai Jin'er to stay close, and she accidentally collided with his back before he teased her.
• Chun Xiaobai spotted about twenty-five resting disciples by a stream and saw that they all carried wealth energy.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered his companions to conceal their identities, then used his movement techniques to freeze all twenty-five disciples in place.
• Chun Xiaobai scolded Li Xuanfeng and the others for arriving late, and they looted the frozen disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai led the group fifty kilometers away, where they gathered around twenty-five Storage Bags.

Chun Xiaobai divided the spoils from a successful robbery among his nine recruits, turning their earlier reluctance into eager loyalty. He led them onward and found two large groups fighting over a third-tier spirit herb, then began planning how to seize it.

• Chun Xiaobai handed one Storage Bag to each of the nine recruits without checking its contents, and they discovered the valuable loot inside.
• Li Xuanfeng and the others thanked Chun Xiaobai as their chief, and he warned them that slackers would lose their share or be expelled.
• Chun Xiaobai gathered the remaining Storage Bags and led the enthusiastic group through the forest, where Lin Yue kept close to him and left Wu Liang behind.
• Chun Xiaobai spotted two groups of nearly a hundred people fighting near an ancient tree, and Bai Jin'er identified a third-tier spirit herb as their prize.
• Chun Xiaobai confirmed the herb's value with his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye and quietly assigned tactics for his group to take advantage of the battle.

Chun Xiaobai and his companions ambushed two groups of sect disciples fighting over a spirit herb, immobilized them, and seized their Storage Bags. Afterward, Chun Xiaobai rebuked Zhao Gang for failing to follow the plan, divided the spoils, and led the group toward another battle.

• Chun Xiaobai froze the disciples fighting beneath the ancient tree, while Li Xuanfeng and the others used Explosive Talismans to help subdue them.
• Chun Xiaobai and his companions searched the immobilized disciples and gathered their Storage Bags.
• At a mountain gully, Chun Xiaobai scolded Zhao Gang for hesitating and warned him that a future mistake could get their brothers killed.
• Chun Xiaobai gave each companion three Storage Bags and kept the rest for himself.
• The group heard another fierce battle ahead, and Chun Xiaobai told everyone to take cover.

Chun Xiaobai’s group fled a tier 3 monster, then continued looting disciples as they traveled deeper into the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range. After reaching a safe valley, Chun Xiaobai sorted his haul and realized most of the stolen goods were of little value, leaving him determined to find a better way to profit before the trial ended.

• Chun Xiaobai spotted a tier 3 monster pursuing nearly a hundred disciples and led his group in a two-hour escape.
• Chun Xiaobai’s group encountered a team dividing its spoils, and he used his usual trick to take all the loot.
• After traveling five thousand miles into the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range, Chun Xiaobai’s group rested in a valley while Lin Yue repeatedly brushed against him, prompting him to rebuke her and Wu Liang.
• Chun Xiaobai carved out a separate cave, sealed its entrance with a Tier 2 Shielding Talisman, and went into seclusion while the others meditated.
• Chun Xiaobai sorted his loot and found that its spirit stones and pills were mostly disappointing, so he resolved not to waste his remaining days in the trial.

Chun Xiaobai realized the valuable targets were in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range’s core and used his spirit stones and herbs to break through to the blood refining seventh layer. At dawn, stronger and eager to enter the core, he left his cave and found his companions cultivating nearby.

• Chun Xiaobai concluded that the Heavenly Baleful Valley’s strongest disciples and the richest rewards were in the mountain range’s core, so he resolved to head there.
• Chun Xiaobai spent two hundred thousand spirit stones cultivating, but found they covered only half the cost of advancing to the blood refining seventh layer.
• Chun Xiaobai swallowed his plundered spirit herbs to make up the difference, then used his lone third tier herb to complete the breakthrough.
• Chun Xiaobai’s strength rose from twenty thousand jin to fifty thousand jin, and he decided he was ready to enter the core region.
• At dawn, Chun Xiaobai gathered the remaining herbs, removed the cave’s barrier, and found his companions meditating outside.

After helping his companions improve their cultivation, Chun Xiaobai ordered them to scout the Core Area of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range for wealthy targets. The group balked at the danger, but he reminded them they had talismans to protect themselves.

• Chun Xiaobai noticed that everyone except Lin Yue had strengthened their auras, while Bai Jin'er had advanced to the eighth layer of Qi Refining; Lin Yue's pill-poisoned foundation kept her cultivation stalled.
• Chun Xiaobai hid his Storage Bags in a stream, then interrupted the group's meditation and called them together.
• Chun Xiaobai announced that the outskirts had no worthwhile targets left and said they would head into the Core Area, despite Zhao Gang and Wu Liang warning about the dangers there.
• Fang Yuan, Bai Jin'er, Li Xuanfeng, and the others agreed to go, and Lin Yue followed after Wu Liang promised to protect her.
• Chun Xiaobai assigned the group to split up and scout for targets without fighting, and he reminded them to use their Aura Concealment Talismans and Swift Travel Talismans when they protested.

Chun Xiaobai sent his recruits into the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range to gather information while he searched alone for a lucrative target. He stumbled on Liu Mang boasting about his powerful family to two women and attacked him before he could take advantage of them.

• Chun Xiaobai offered his recruits a ten-percent cut for useful information and sent them toward the mountain range’s core, promising to watch their backs.
• Chun Xiaobai reflected that Fang Yuan and Bai Jin'er were willing to risk their lives for opportunities, while the others feared losing their treasures, so he continued alone.
• Chun Xiaobai searched the Mountain of Ten Thousand Spirits for a fat sheep but found no Alliance Disciples and received no useful reports.
• Chun Xiaobai overheard Liu Mang, a candidate Saint Son of the Moonlit Sect, boasting about his family while embracing two Junior Sisters.
• Chun Xiaobai struck Liu Mang and knocked out both women, then slapped Liu Mang and accused him of corrupting public morals.

After robbing and disguising himself as Liu Mang, Chun Xiaobai searched for a wealthy expedition leader to target. He discovered a secret realm beneath a killing formation but decided to pursue the leader’s loot first.

• Chun Xiaobai beat Liu Mang and two young women, took their Storage Bags, and stole Liu Mang’s moon-white robe.
• Chun Xiaobai hung the women in a tree and sealed Liu Mang inside an abandoned Demon Beast den with a Concealment Talisman.
• Chun Xiaobai followed a battle to a valley where over two hundred disciples were fighting an Ironback Azure Bear.
• Using his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye, Chun Xiaobai identified the group’s leader as a wealthy target with green wealth aura.
• After the disciples fled from a fourth-tier killing formation, Chun Xiaobai realized a secret realm lay beneath the pool and chose to target the leader first.

Chun Xiaobai abducted Senior Brother Wang, took his group’s treasures, and disguised himself as a member of the Ancient Moon Sect. After Fang Yuan found a wounded squad hiding in a cave, Chun Xiaobai went to rob them, but his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye suggested they might have little wealth.

• Chun Xiaobai used Shrinking Land to Inches to knock out and abduct Senior Brother Wang, leaving the disciples unable to catch him.
• Chun Xiaobai found spirit herbs, pills, spirit stones, and demon cores among Wang Sheng’s group’s treasures, then took the loot and put on Wang Sheng’s Ancient Moon Sect uniform and Identity Token.
• Fang Yuan sent a Message Transmission Talisman to tell Chun Xiaobai about a wounded squad hiding in a cave after leaving a Secret Realm.
• Chun Xiaobai met Fang Yuan, followed him to the cave, and moved aside the boulder blocking its entrance.
• Chun Xiaobai used his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye on the moss-covered rock wall and suspected the hidden squad had little wealth.

Chun Xiaobai ambushed six injured Foundation Establishment cultivators in a cave and searched their Storage Bags, finding a mystic-tier bag filled mostly with ruined relics. He uncovered a sealed sword case that burst with dark radiance when he opened it, leaving him watching warily from behind the immobilized cultivators.

• Chun Xiaobai broke the concealment formation at a cave entrance and found six Foundation Establishment middle-stage cultivators inside.
• Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Treading Steps and Heaven-Sealing Finger to immobilize all six before they could react.
• Chun Xiaobai took the six Storage Bags, found little of value, and discovered a mystic-tier Storage Bag on their leader.
• Chun Xiaobai found a blue-glowing sword case among the ruined relics and broke its seal with Heaven-Rending Hand.
• Chun Xiaobai opened the sword case, which released dark radiance that plunged the cave into darkness, and retreated to the entrance behind the six cultivators.

Chun Xiaobai discovered a powerful black great blade in the cave and decided to keep it despite suspecting it was a demonic artifact. After looting several more squads and disguising himself in a Heaven-Dominating Sect uniform, he encountered a group whose leader mistook him for a senior brother.

• Chun Xiaobai found a massive black blade in the iron box, tested its power, and felt it greatly increase his strength.
• Suspecting the blade might be demonic, Chun Xiaobai chose to keep it and planned to cover its black appearance.
• Chun Xiaobai arranged the six statues in the cave, changed into a blue sect uniform, stored his loot, and sealed the cave entrance.
• Chun Xiaobai ambushed several squads using his usual trick and collected spirit stones, spirit herbs, and magical artifacts.
• After noticing that none of his recruited men had contacted him, Chun Xiaobai met a group whose leader asked whether he was a senior brother from the Heaven-Dominating Sect.

Chun Xiaobai learned that the Alliance Army was hunting a supposed pervert—unaware the wanted man was him—and hurried toward the central battle zone in search of a fortune. A message from Zhao Gang led him to detour toward a rumored Secret Realm, though he felt uneasy about the discovery.

• Chun Xiaobai learned that the Alliance Army’s missing male captains had been blamed on a pervert, and a wanted notice offered a reward for the culprit.
• Chun Xiaobai learned that the Heavenly Baleful Valley disciples likely held a greater haul of spirit herbs and Demon Cores than the Alliance Army.
• Chun Xiaobai hurried toward the central battle zone and captured five more disciples, raising the bounty on him to two hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai received messages from Wu Liang about a resting hundred-man group and from Zhao Gang about disciples entering a Secret Realm.
• Chun Xiaobai changed course toward Zhao Gang’s reported Secret Realm, but wondered how Zhao Gang had found it so quickly.

Chun Xiaobai discovered that Zhao Gang had lured him to a cliff to kill him and steal his treasures. After killing Zhao Gang and the three disciples who witnessed the plot, Chun Xiaobai returned to the cliff, suspecting that it concealed a real Secret Realm.

• Zhao Gang told Chun Xiaobai that he had seen people vanish into the cliff and suspected a Secret Realm was hidden there.
• Zhao Gang tried to push Chun Xiaobai off the cliff, but Chun Xiaobai resisted and realized he had been betrayed.
• Chun Xiaobai killed Zhao Gang and threw his body into the abyss.
• Chun Xiaobai spotted three disciples fleeing, killed two with punches, and killed the last after he blamed Zhao Gang for the plot.
• Chun Xiaobai returned to the cliff and sensed that something unusual lay beyond the gray haze his Treasure-Seeing Divine Eye could not see through.