Chapter Summaries

Chun Xiaobai kidnapped core disciples from both factions to provoke a battle, but the factions retreated and reinforced their camps instead. Frustrated, he went with Fang Yuan, Bai Jin'er, and Xiao Zhang to a concealed stronghold by the abyss, where he praised Bai Jin'er's plan.

• Chun Xiaobai used Heaven-Treading Steps to knock out and kidnap a Heavenly Baleful Valley core disciple, then escaped into the woods with him.
• Fang Yuan told Chun Xiaobai that Bai Jin'er and Xiao Zhang had gone to the abyss to dig out a secret stronghold.
• Bai Jin'er and Xiao Zhang returned in a war puppet, and Xiao Zhang recognized the captive, slapped him, and carried him to the cliff.
• Chun Xiaobai captured a Righteous Alliance core disciple, but both factions only traded insults before retreating to reinforce their camps.
• Chun Xiaobai sent Fang Yuan to investigate, learned that the factions planned to delay fighting until the final three days, and took the others to the concealed cave by the abyss.
• Chun Xiaobai praised Xiao Zhang for finding the hidden stronghold, and Xiao Zhang credited Bai Jin'er, who eagerly awaited his praise.

Chun Xiaobai turned two immobilized Core Disciples into humiliating recordings, then threatened Li Cheng to extort money from him. Li Cheng mistook Chun Xiaobai and his companions for bandits and offered to summon spirit stones, unaware that the group was playing along with his own criminal methods.

• Chun Xiaobai inspected the cave and ordered Fang Yuan to strip the two immobilized Core Disciples while the group recorded them in degrading poses.
• Chun Xiaobai and his companions changed into Night-Walking Garments, and he released Li Cheng from the immobilizing seal while keeping him weakened by Spirit-Severing Powder.
• Xiao Zhang kicked Li Cheng and revealed that he resented the disciple, whose father was an elder of Heavenly Baleful Valley.
• Chun Xiaobai threatened Li Cheng with a broadsword and pretended to consider exchanging his head for points.
• Li Cheng mistook the group for bandits and offered to pay spirit stones, then proposed using a Message Transmission Talisman to summon his junior brothers with the money.

Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang delivered humiliating recordings of captured Core Disciples to their camps, provoking both sides to abandon the planned two-day wait and prepare for immediate war. The Righteous Alliance gathered a fifty-thousand-strong army under temporary leader Lu Yunfei.

• Fang Yuan forced Li Cheng to record a message insulting the Heavenly Baleful Valley and praising the Righteous Alliance, then Chun Xiaobai froze him again.
• Chun Xiaobai had the group repeat the same humiliation with a captured Righteous Alliance Core Disciple and ordered Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang to deliver the recordings.
• Bai Jin'er scolded Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang for leaving dangerous and unpleasant work to Chun Xiaobai, prompting them to accept the recordings and leave.
• The recordings enraged both camps, whose disciples caught Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang and beat them before deciding to fight immediately.
• The Righteous Alliance assembled fifty thousand fighters, including Qin Ruoxue, Gu Shuangshuang, and a temporary Hundred Flowers Squad, and chose Lu Yunfei as its Alliance Leader.

The Righteous Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley marched to battle, but their forces met before reaching either camp and began arguing instead of fighting. Chun Xiaobai realized his scheme was at risk and decided he might have to act himself.

• Lu Yunfei gave the Righteous Alliance’s fifty thousand disciples a rousing speech while Qin Ruoxue ignored him.
• Ye Liuli punished a disciple who stared at her, then ordered the Heavenly Baleful Valley to kill the Righteous Alliance and turn them into Human Puppets.
• The two armies collided in a valley, where Qin Ruoxue and Lu Yunfei tried to steady the Righteous Alliance’s frightened formation.
• Ye Liuli demanded Li Cheng’s head, and Qin Ruoxue accused the Heavenly Baleful Valley of abducting righteous disciples; both sides were confused by the accusations.
• Chun Xiaobai recognized that the two sides were only trading insults and concluded he might have to take a risky step to save his scheme.

Chun Xiaobai unleashed the Great Might Heavenly Dragon Palm, helping trigger the Righteous Alliance’s rout, then captured several Core Disciples to take back to his lair. He returned to the battlefield disguised as a bandit, searching for more valuable targets, but found only fleeing disciples and no Core Disciples nearby.

• Chun Xiaobai used Regretful Dragon to smash several War Puppets, prompting Ye Liuli to order Heavenly Baleful Valley’s forces to attack.
• The Righteous Alliance army fled, Lu Yunfei escaped with a Swift Travel Talisman, and Qin Ruoxue charged Ye Liuli to fight her.
• Chun Xiaobai dodged pursuing War Puppets, seized one and took control of it, then captured Righteous Alliance Core Disciples and handed them to Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang.
• Chun Xiaobai changed into his Night-Walking Garment and Bandit Hood and returned to the battlefield to hunt for more Core Disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai searched the mountain forests but encountered only fleeing Alliance Disciples and found no Core Disciples.

Chun Xiaobai ambushed and captured several Core Disciples, including Lu Yunfei, then brought them and their Storage Rings back to his cave. He learned that he could not open the rings without removing their divine sense imprints, leaving him frustrated over how to access the wealth inside.

• Chun Xiaobai followed a fleeing Core Disciple and caught three Core Disciples by disabling their War Puppets, including Lu Yunfei.
• Chun Xiaobai captured Lu Yunfei and the other disciples, then gathered three more wounded Core Disciples and five War Puppets along the way back to his cave.
• Chun Xiaobai accepted seventeen Storage Rings from Bai Jin'er but found he could not open them because they carried their owners' divine sense imprints.
• Bai Jin'er explained that a secret technique could remove an imprint only if Chun Xiaobai cultivated one major realm above its owner.
• Fang Yuan explained that Storage Rings could not be forced open without destroying their contents, leaving Chun Xiaobai lamenting that he could not access the loot.

Chun Xiaobai used the Heaven-Rending Hand to erase divine sense imprints from Storage Rings and shared several with Fang Yuan, Xiao Zhang, and Bai Jin'er. After they looted the hostages, Fang Yuan showed him valuable armor and robes taken from Lu Yunfei.

• Chun Xiaobai realized his Heaven-Rending Hand could sense and dismantle the formations protecting Storage Ring imprints, then erased an imprint and injured its owner through backlash.
• Chun Xiaobai discovered the ring held abundant pills, magical artifacts, talismans, spirit herbs, and over two hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Chun Xiaobai erased the imprints on three more rings and gave them to Fang Yuan, Xiao Zhang, and Bai Jin'er, who were astonished and grateful.
• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang searched the hostages and collected Mystic Tier armor, thirteen Storage Bags, and enchanted robes.
• Fang Yuan presented the armor and robes taken from Lu Yunfei, and Chun Xiaobai asked what they were.

Chun Xiaobai claimed a valuable enchanted robe for himself and gave Bai Jin'er the Golden Cicada Armor before the group began recording ransom messages from their captives. When Lu Yunfei revealed that his father was the Divine Firmament Sect’s Sect Master, Chun Xiaobai and the others realized they had captured a far more valuable hostage than they expected.

• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang explained the enchanted robe’s value, and Chun Xiaobai erased its imprint and changed it into a Night-Walking Garment.
• Chun Xiaobai judged the Golden Cicada Armor unnecessary for himself and gave it to Bai Jin'er as a reward.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang to record ransom messages from the thirty Righteous Alliance captives while Bai Jin'er kept watch.
• Lu Yunfei begged the kidnappers for mercy and offered to fetch a high ransom from his wealthy father.
• Lu Yunfei revealed that his father was the Divine Firmament Sect’s Sect Master, leaving Chun Xiaobai and the others stunned by their fortune.

Chun Xiaobai secured a ransom and blackmail recording from Lu Yunfei, then returned to the battlefield to hunt for valuable disciples. After finding mostly hidden or low-ranking targets, he decided to pursue the ten most influential names on his list.

• Chun Xiaobai had Lu Yunfei record his father's secrets and demand a ransom, and Lu Yunfei added a Heaven-Tier Magical Treasure to the list.
• Chun Xiaobai made Lu Yunfei record a second version with several treasures removed, keeping both recordings as ransom and blackmail evidence.
• Bai Jin'er told Chun Xiaobai to be careful, but he mistook her concern for a fever and left the cave.
• Chun Xiaobai searched the battlefield, found hidden disciples inside War Puppets, and robbed them, but encountered no valuable Core Disciples.
• Chun Xiaobai studied Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang's list and chose to target its ten most influential disciples.

Chun Xiaobai infiltrated the Primordial Forest, where the Core Disciples of the Righteous Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley were fighting, to capture high-value targets without revealing his identity. He seized Gu Shuangshuang and, after finding four more targets weakened by battle, sealed them as well.

• Chun Xiaobai learned that the Core Disciples had gathered for a showdown in the Primordial Forest and headed there in disguise.
• Chun Xiaobai avoided confronting a righteous disciple fighting three Heavenly Baleful Valley disciples after checking that none matched his target portraits.
• Gu Shuangshuang ambushed Chun Xiaobai, but he sealed her, slapped her, and hid her in a ditch.
• Chun Xiaobai escaped attacks from other Core Disciples and continued searching for the targets on his list.
• Chun Xiaobai waited until four targets were badly wounded and exhausted, then rushed in and sealed all four.

Chun Xiaobai encountered Ye Liuli, captain of the Heavenly Baleful Valley alliance, and fought her after she mistook him for an enemy. He defeated her and left her unable to use spiritual power, with Ye Liuli vowing to die rather than submit.

• Chun Xiaobai hid five captured targets in a secluded cave before Ye Liuli shouted at him to help.
• Ye Liuli attacked Chun Xiaobai with her spear, but he dodged her strikes and revealed strength that shocked her.
• Chun Xiaobai unleashed Sky-Piercing Flying Dragon, breaking through Ye Liuli's spear-shadow attack and hurling her into the trees.
• Chun Xiaobai grabbed Ye Liuli after she fell and found she could no longer muster spiritual power.
• Ye Liuli called Chun Xiaobai a shameless degenerate and declared she would die before letting him have his way.

Chun Xiaobai captured Ye Liuli and Qin Ruoxue, then brought them and his other hostages back to his hideout beneath the Cliff. His followers discovered the two famous women among the captives, while Bai Jin'er felt uneasy about their arrival.

• Ye Liuli tried to kill herself, but Chun Xiaobai immobilized her and took her Mystic Tier magical Phoenix Hairpin.
• Chun Xiaobai encountered the injured Qin Ruoxue, who demanded that he release Ye Liuli, and he captured her with a trick.
• Chun Xiaobai loaded Ye Liuli, Qin Ruoxue, and his earlier hostages into a War Puppet and traveled back to the Cliff.
• Fang Yuan welcomed Chun Xiaobai and was shocked to find Ye Liuli and Qin Ruoxue among the eleven captives.
• Bai Jin'er carried Ye Liuli and Qin Ruoxue out of the cockpit as Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang directed the other captives into the cave.

Chun Xiaobai gathered more than a thousand hostages and planned to use their recordings to pressure the sects, while the Hundred Sects Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley elders reacted to humiliating battle reports. The chapter ended with a Righteous Alliance elder watching a new recording and spitting blood in outrage.

• Chun Xiaobai had Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang retrieve more than a thousand hostages, then ordered them to arrange for image-recording talismans to be delivered by hired messengers.
• The Hundred Sects Alliance elders read reports of their disciples’ defeats and humiliations, while one elder collapsed from rage.
• Zheng Tianyuan dismissed reports that fifteen Heavenly Baleful Valley disciples were missing, then watched a recording showing Li Cheng begging for mercy and demanding ransom.
• Zheng Tianyuan crushed the Image Recording Stone before Li Cheng’s master could see it, leaving the old man convinced that his disciple had been framed.
• Righteous Alliance disciples brought an Image Recording Stone asking for help from Senior Brother Wang, and the elder who watched it spat blood and denounced Heavenly Baleful Valley.

Chun Xiaobai’s ransom scheme failed when the Righteous Alliance refused to pay for Wang Sheng, so he sent new recordings threatening to expose sect secrets unless the factions paid. The Righteous Alliance chose to abandon its captured disciples, while the Heavenly Baleful Valley erupted in fury over similar threats against its own inner disciples.

• Envoy Zhang and the Righteous Alliance elders watched Wang Sheng’s recording and decided to leave him rather than pay his ransom.
• Chun Xiaobai realized the factions would not pay and ordered Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang to record new ransom demands with the captured inner disciples.
• The new recordings threatened to expose spiritual mines, outposts, and secret stashes unless the factions paid.
• Envoy Zhang persuaded the Righteous Alliance elders to abandon their 860 captured disciples, citing the enormous cost and the danger of setting a precedent.
• The Heavenly Baleful Valley elders saw recordings of over 200 inner disciples threatening to reveal the sect’s strongholds and spiritual mines, and denounced the Righteous Alliance as bandits.

Chun Xiaobai sent recordings of abducted Core Disciples demanding ransom, forcing the Righteous Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley to weigh enormous payments against losing their talented disciples. Both sides struggled to decide what to do as the one-day deadline loomed.

• Zheng Tianyuan and the Heavenly Baleful Valley elders decided to refuse the earlier ransom demand and publicize the Righteous Alliance’s actions.
• After waiting four hours without a reply, Chun Xiaobai had Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang record thirty Core Disciples begging for ransom and threatening to defect, then sent the recordings to both factions.
• The Righteous Alliance elders grew furious over the demand for one million spirit stones per Core Disciple, while Envoy Zhang stopped them from breaking the peace agreement.
• Zheng Tianyuan hesitated to pay ten million spirit stones for Heavenly Baleful Valley’s ten captives after elders warned they could defect with the sect’s War Puppet technology.
• The Righteous Alliance concluded it had little choice but to pay, but could not gather twenty million spirit stones before the one-day deadline.

Chun Xiaobai negotiated ransoms for the captured Core Disciples by adding more free Inner Sect disciples to make the million-Spirit-Stone price feel like a bargain. The Righteous Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley remained reluctant to pay and kept haggling, leaving negotiations ongoing.

• Envoy Zhang and the elders considered fighting to the death until Chun Xiaobai offered ten free Inner Sect disciples with each million-Spirit-Stone ransom.
• The Righteous Alliance and Heavenly Baleful Valley recognized that Chun Xiaobai wanted money and countered with a limit of fifty thousand Spirit Stones per Core Disciple.
• Chun Xiaobai raised the offer to thirty free Inner Sect disciples for the Righteous Alliance and twenty for Heavenly Baleful Valley, while keeping the ransom at a million per Core Disciple.
• Zheng Tianyuan and Envoy Zhang balked at the total cost and ordered their elders to keep haggling.
• Chun Xiaobai added another ten free Inner Sect disciples per Core Disciple, prompting both sides to feel they had secured a better deal despite still facing huge bills.
• The elders sent another counteroffer, and the negotiations continued.

Chun Xiaobai negotiated the release of the kidnapped disciples for three million spirit stones, then shared a million with Fang Yuan, Xiao Zhang, and Bai Jin'er. The prisoners were to be left at a designated location for their sects to collect.

• Chun Xiaobai offered to release each Core Disciple for one hundred thousand spirit stones and include thirty-five inner disciples for free, and both sects accepted after initially celebrating the bargain.
• Envoy Zhang reluctantly agreed to pay, while Heavenly Baleful Valley prepared its payment until an elder raised concerns about the hostages’ safety.
• Chun Xiaobai and the two camps swore vicious oaths upon the Heavenly Dao, including promises not to kidnap the disciples again.
• Chun Xiaobai received three million spirit stones and gave a ring containing one million to Fang Yuan, Xiao Zhang, and Bai Jin'er to split.
• Chun Xiaobai ordered the captives taken to a designated location so their people could collect them.

Chun Xiaobai's group delivered the kidnapped disciples to their sects, then held several wealthy heirs for ransom and forced them to submit. Chun Xiaobai entered a neighboring Cave Abode with Bai Jin'er and found Qin Ruoxue, Gu Shuangshuang, and Ye Liuli there.

• Chun Xiaobai sent the thousand-plus Inner Sect disciples and Core Disciples back to concealed locations, and their elders retrieved and punished them.
• Zheng Tianyuan realized Ye Liuli had been missing for two days, while the Mystic Ice Palace elders also noticed they had heard nothing from Qin Ruoxue, so the sects sent disciples to search.
• Chun Xiaobai and Fang Yuan questioned the captured heirs about their families, and Fang Yuan recorded their backgrounds to set their ransoms.
• Fang Yuan and Xiao Zhang beat the heirs when they resisted, and Chun Xiaobai threatened to take their limbs until they obediently accepted his terms.
• Chun Xiaobai took Bai Jin'er into the neighboring Cave Abode and found Qin Ruoxue, Gu Shuangshuang, and Ye Liuli inside.

Chun Xiaobai and Bai Jin'er stripped and intimidated the kidnapped Gu Shuangshuang, then forced her to record a plea-for-help video so they could extort her mother. After immobilizing Gu Shuangshuang again, Chun Xiaobai turned his attention to Qin Ruoxue and Ye Liuli.

• Chun Xiaobai ordered Bai Jin'er to strip the three captive women and prepare Image Recording Talismans.
• Bai Jin'er stripped the women, then slapped Gu Shuangshuang when she regained consciousness and looked around.
• Gu Shuangshuang recognized that bandits had kidnapped her and screamed when she realized she was nearly naked.
• Chun Xiaobai threatened to spread a recording of Gu Shuangshuang's seductive dance unless she asked her mother for money.
• Gu Shuangshuang recorded a plea-for-help video, and Chun Xiaobai immobilized her before turning to Qin Ruoxue and Ye Liuli.

Chun Xiaobai and Bai Jin'er forced Ye Liuli to record a ransom demand, then released Qin Ruoxue, whose divine soul attacks unexpectedly strengthened Chun Xiaobai's divine sense. The chapter left Qin Ruoxue facing Chun Xiaobai as he mistook her attack for a fortuitous opportunity.

• Chun Xiaobai released Ye Liuli's seal, and she immediately attacked him before realizing her spiritual power was sealed.
• Ye Liuli accused Chun Xiaobai of being a lecher, then agreed to record a list of treasures and spirit stones for ransom.
• Chun Xiaobai resealed Ye Liuli and released Qin Ruoxue, whose divine soul attack knocked Bai Jin'er unconscious.
• Qin Ruoxue sent a transparent sword of divine sense through Chun Xiaobai's brow, increasing his divine sense range from thirty li to thirty-two li.
• Chun Xiaobai mistook Qin Ruoxue's attack for a fortuitous opportunity, while she suspected he was hiding an injury.