Chapter Summaries

Mu Yun revealed the demonic markings hidden beneath her stockings and questioned Yu Hu about Xiao Bai’s rapid cultivation, while Yu Hu suggested testing whether Mu Yun’s demonic power could affect him. After Mu Yun refused and left, Yu Hu teased Xiao Bai; the next day, he decided to focus on getting closer to Mu Yun and asked her to teach him farming.

• Mu Yun removed her stockings in the hot spring, revealing dark-red demonic markings, and took a pill Yu Hu gave her to suppress the darkness.
• Mu Yun told Yu Hu she wanted to learn why Xiao Bai advanced so quickly, and Yu Hu suggested Mu Yun test whether her demonic power could affect his Balanced Five Elements Physique.
• Mu Yun rejected the suggestion and left, and Yu Hu teased the pretending-to-sleep Xiao Bai before the two spent the night together.
• Xiao Bai woke the next day without gaining much cultivation progress, ate the leftover grilled squid, and saw Yu Hu making medicine while Mu Yun tended the garden.
• Xiao Bai went to Mu Yun and asked her to teach him how to farm.

Xiao Bai began learning medicinal herb cultivation from Mu Yun, then received a Dao Alliance invitation to become a Dao Inspector. After learning the Alliance had repeatedly demanded he undergo an examination for possession, he accepted a One-Star Dao Alliance Order and said he would consider the position.

• Xiao Bai persuaded Mu Yun to teach him herb cultivation by claiming her techniques could be improved.
• Mu Yun showed Xiao Bai medicinal plants on Hundred Herbs Peak and destroyed a strange poisonous flower, blaming her master for experimenting with it.
• Zhang Yufeng arrived with two Discipline Disciples and invited Xiao Bai to serve as a Dao Inspector at the Dao Supervision Palace.
• Xiao Bai refused the invitation because he suspected the Dao Alliance and did not want to work under Qi Shan.
• Zhang Yufeng revealed the Dao Alliance had repeatedly ordered Xiao Bai to undergo an examination for possession and presented a One-Star Dao Alliance Order.
• Xiao Bai accepted the order and told Zhang Yufeng he would consider the invitation.

Xiao Bai debated whether to accept the Dao Alliance’s invitation to become a supervising constable, suspecting both the Dao Alliance and Yu Hu wanted to use him as an informant. After weighing the stipend and the chance to investigate the plot against him, he decided to meet Zhang Yufeng the next day.

• Mu Yun warned Xiao Bai that the Sect Overseer wanted to kill him, but Xiao Bai suspected the Dao Alliance was more interested in Yu Hu’s research.
• Mu Yun accompanied Xiao Bai to the Pill Room, where Yu Hu asked whether he wanted to join the Dao Alliance and assured him no one could use him to harm her if he stayed true to himself.
• Xiao Bai resisted the idea of becoming a supervising constable, while Yu Hu and Mu Yun pointed out the high stipend and his duty to help support Yu Hu’s pill-making.
• Mu Yun revealed that her investigation into Zhao Hanwu suggested the mastermind behind the plot against Xiao Bai was connected to the Dao Alliance.
• Xiao Bai decided the position could help him investigate the culprit and chose to find Zhang Yufeng the next day.

Xiao Bai accepted Yu Hu’s protection pill and prepared to serve as a Dao Inspector while remaining an elder of the Snow Flame Sect. After gaining the sect leaders’ approval, he left for the Dao Supervision Palace with Zhang Yufeng.

• Yu Hu gave Xiao Bai a low-tier pill that she said could save him in danger, and told him she found him interesting but did not fully trust him.
• Xiao Bai spent the night with Yu Hu, then gave her two thousand spirit stones before leaving.
• Xiao Bai went to the Discipline Hall, where Zhong Fuzi checked that he had not been possessed and Master Chun Xiao approved his Dao Inspector appointment.
• Zhong Fuzi cautioned Xiao Bai not to mistake wrongdoing by individuals for a failure of the sect, Imperial Court, or Dao Alliance, while Master Chun Xiao urged him to follow his heart when facing injustice.
• Xiao Bai left the Discipline Hall and boarded its Dao Alliance skyship with Chief Discipline Officer Zhang Yufeng to travel to the Dao Supervision Palace.

Xiao Bai and Zhang Yufeng’s skyship was attacked by a massive Black Crow beast tide, and a hidden Golden Core Giant Crow wounded Zhang Yufeng. As Xiao Bai realized Xiahou Mu Yun might be involved, the system offered to begin remote observation.

• Xiao Bai questioned why Zhang Yufeng was the skyship’s only pilot, and Zhang said he had chosen to travel with just the two of them so he could flee more easily if danger came.
• A huge Black Crow beast tide attacked the skyship, and Zhang Yufeng identified it as an assault likely orchestrated by the Demon Alliance.
• The Black Crows began self-destructing to drain the skyship’s defenses, forcing Zhang Yufeng to pilot under mounting pressure.
• Zhang Yufeng set the skyship to Autonomous Mode and jumped off to search for the beast tide’s controller, but a concealed Golden Core Giant Crow struck his chest.
• The system detected suspected evil conduct by the Second Female Lead, Xiahou Mu Yun, and asked Xiao Bai whether to initiate remote observation.

Xiao Bai used Remote Sensing to discover that Mu Yun had stopped Du Ya from killing him, then arrived with Zhang Yufeng at the Dao Supervision Palace in Chaoge. Supervisor Xuan Shi greeted Xiao Bai and revealed he would oversee his daily life, leaving Zhang Yufeng surprised by Xiao Bai’s apparent status.

• Xiao Bai used Remote Sensing to locate Du Ya directing the Crow Tide, and learned that Mu Yun had intervened to protect him.
• Mu Yun subdued Du Ya and ordered him to leave, after which the crows scattered and the attacks on Zhang Yufeng’s skyship stopped.
• Xiao Bai helped the exhausted Zhang Yufeng back onto the damaged skyship and insisted they continue to Chaoge rather than abandon it.
• Xiao Bai and Zhang Yufeng arrived in Chaoge and entered the Dao Supervision Palace on Yellow Rock Mountain.
• Supervisor Xuan Shi introduced himself as the person responsible for Xiao Bai’s daily life, surprising Zhang Yufeng.

Xiao Bai became an official Dao Alliance constable and was taken to the Internal Examination Room, where the doctors anesthetized him despite his objections. As Qi Shan watched the examination begin, he revealed that a powerful prisoner had called to Xiao Bai for the first time, leaving Xuan Shi worried about the Devil Race’s interest in him.

• Xuan Shi completed Xiao Bai’s constable registration and took him to the Internal Examination Room, while Zhang Yufeng questioned the handover and then left.
• As Xiao Bai and Xuan Shi rode the Connecting Heaven Well, a prisoner’s divine sense tempted Xiao Bai with power, but Xiao Bai refused to answer it.
• Xuan Shi explained that the prison’s divine senses were left in place to test Dao Alliance members, and Xiao Bai asked whether anyone had ever been bewitched into causing a disaster.
• The Daoist doctors prepared Xiao Bai for his internal examination, and the elderly doctor used anesthetic on him despite his refusal.
• Qi Shan watched Xiao Bai through a stereoscopic projection and told Xuan Shi that Qu Yangzi of the Heavenly Demon Sect had called for help for the first time.

Xiao Bai’s examination confirmed he had a Balanced Five Elements spiritual root and no demonic traces, but Qi Shan ordered the doctors to cut open his dantian anyway. Xiao Bai activated a medicinal seal to stop them, and its alcohol scent stirred two mysterious prisoners in the underground cells.

• The examination formation confirmed Xiao Bai was a pure human with a Balanced Five Elements spiritual root, early Qi Refining cultivation, and only one Dual Cultivation partner.
• Qi Shan dismissed Supervisor Xuan’s concerns and ordered the doctors to dissect Xiao Bai’s dantian, accepting responsibility for the procedure.
• As the doctors prepared to cut Xiao Bai, he activated the Alcohol-Filled Chocolate Medicinal Power Format, releasing spiritual power and a strong alcohol scent.
• The alcohol scent reached the Surveillance Room, and Qi Shan ordered the doctors to proceed immediately.
• On the eighteenth underground prison level, a crimson-faced old man sensed the scent and declared it was a fine day to enter the world.
• In a neighboring cell, a sleeping woman caught the scent, woke, and warned that she would not forgive her master unless something interesting had called her out.

One Sword Fox escaped the Underground Prison after the alcohol scent from Xiao Bai’s pill reached her, and she rescued him from the Internal Examination Room. She left Qu Yangzi behind, while Xiao Bai introduced himself as her Martial Granduncle.

• One Sword Fox turned her dantian and the prison’s spiritual pressure into a rising tide, broke free, and took the sword embedded in her dantian along with her wine jug.
• One Sword Fox refused Qu Yangzi’s plea for help because she wanted to collect twenty years of back pay from the Dao Supervision Envoy, but a mysterious woman in black appeared to help him.
• Xiao Bai’s supposed escape pill released an intoxicating scent but no visible effect, and Qi Shan ordered the Dao physicians to proceed with cutting open his dantian.
• One Sword Fox’s escape triggered the prison alarms, and her spiritual pressure pinned the physicians before shattering the Internal Examination Room and the neighboring Surveillance Room.
• One Sword Fox lifted Xiao Bai by the collar and asked where her Master was; Xiao Bai recognized her as the woman drawn by the pill’s alcohol scent and told her to call him Martial Granduncle.

One Sword Fox rescued Xiao Bai from the Dao Supervision Palace and killed Supervisor Qi Shan with the prison Spirit Locking Sword, though Qi Shan escaped using spatial magic. As alarms rang, One Sword Fox confronted Xiao Bai about breaking her master's golden body.

• One Sword Fox freed Xiao Bai from the ruins and learned from Qi Shan that he was a Balanced Five Elements Qi Refining prodigy and her Martial Granduncle.
• Qi Shan tested One Sword Fox's strength and demanded that she remove Xiao Bai's dantian, but she refused to harm her Martial Granduncle.
• One Sword Fox drew the Spirit Locking Sword, which shattered into sword-shaped iron sand and severed Qi Shan's head.
• Qi Shan's headless body curled around his dantian and escaped through space before Xiao Bai could finish him off.
• As the prison alarms sounded, One Sword Fox picked up Qi Shan's sword, sniffed the alcohol on Xiao Bai's breath, and asked if he had broken her master's golden body.

Xiao Bai and One Sword Fox escaped the Dao Supervision Palace ruins, where Dao Supervision Envoy You Yazhi confronted them over the prison break and the Sect Overseer’s illegal examination. After Xuan Shi confirmed Xiao Bai’s account, You Yazhi called an urgent meeting at the Heavenly Judgment Court, but One Sword Fox broke free and headed back to Hundred Herbs Peak to bathe.

• One Sword Fox examined Xiao Bai, introduced herself as Lingzhou, and asked him to help demand her twenty years of unpaid salary from the Dao Alliance.
• Xiao Bai and One Sword Fox reached the palace rooftop, where You Yazhi sealed them inside a black coffin and accused her of escaping prison, killing Qi Shan, and freeing Qu Yangzi.
• One Sword Fox summoned her Azure Pattern Ancient Sword, but it flew into You Yazhi’s hand; she then tried to blame Xiao Bai for luring her out.
• Xiao Bai told You Yazhi that the Sect Overseer had illegally examined his dantian and that One Sword Fox had saved him, while Xuan Shi confirmed the account.
• You Yazhi summoned Xuan Shi, ordered an urgent meeting at the Heavenly Judgment Court, and brought Xiao Bai and One Sword Fox along.
• One Sword Fox recovered her sword, shattered You Yazhi’s sealing coffin, and left for Hundred Herbs Peak to bathe, with Xiao Bai following.

After escaping the Dao Supervision Palace, One Sword Fox returned to the Snow Flame Sect with Xiao Bai and was allowed to stay until the Dao Alliance issued its judgment. At Hundred Herbs Peak, she bathed in the hot spring and reunited with her long-absent Master.

• One Sword Fox rescued Xiao Bai from the Dao Supervision Palace and flew him toward the Snow Flame Sect on her sword.
• Master Chun Xiao received a letter ordering the sect to shelter One Sword Fox until the Dao Alliance delivered its verdict.
• One Sword Fox said she had returned to bathe, and Xiao Bai persuaded Master Chun Xiao to let her stay at the sect.
• One Sword Fox recalled that Lin Xizi had appeared somewhere he did not belong before being injured, raising Master Chun Xiao's suspicions about the past.
• One Sword Fox bathed at Hundred Herbs Peak and saw her Master, who remarked that she had not changed while One Sword Fox noticed that her Master had grown younger.

One Sword Fox accepted Yuhu’s wine and agreed to test Xiao Bai by teaching him swordsmanship. Meanwhile, the Dao Supervision Palace deliberated over the prison break, One Sword Fox’s status, and Xiao Bai’s appointment, leaving his role conditional on reaching Foundation Establishment.

• Yuhu gave One Sword Fox Bamboo Leaf Green infused with Little Die Xiang and asked her to test Xiao Bai’s limits and teach him swordsmanship.
• One Sword Fox drank the wine, agreed to teach Xiao Bai, and asked Yuhu why Snow Flame Sect still belonged to the Dao Alliance after twenty years.
• The Dao Supervision Palace declared martial law in Chaoge City after One Sword Fox and Qu Yangzi escaped prison.
• At the Heavenly Judgment Court, Zhang Wenyin concluded that an unknown third person had rescued Qu Yangzi and promised to investigate.
• Zhang Wenyin proposed restoring One Sword Fox’s official position as a prison catcher, while the supervisors decided Xiao Bai would serve only after reaching Foundation Establishment.

Zhang Wenyin enlisted Xuan Shi to investigate a suspected Devil Race informant and devised a plan to lure the demon into Chaoge City. At Hundred Herbs Peak, Xiao Bai considered how to grow stronger before the Modifier alerted him to recorded footage of Xiahou Mu Yun’s suspected evil conduct.

• Xuan Shi told Zhang Wenyin that two Dao Alliance informants in the Snow Flame Sect had been killed by what appeared to be a Devil Race member.
• Zhang Wenyin compared the Black Obsidian records with the demonic qi he had sensed while pursuing Qu Yangzi and concluded the traces came from the same informant.
• Zhang Wenyin planned to have the city formation detect matching demonic qi and use One Sword Fox’s investigations to drive the demon toward Chaoge.
• Xuan Shi realized Zhang Wenyin was positioning himself to take power and might blame him if the plan failed.
• Xiao Bai weighed ways to improve his strength and chose to seek out Mu Yun, but the Modifier offered delayed footage of Xiahou Mu Yun’s suspected evil conduct.

Xiao Bai visited Mu Yun after realizing she had secretly protected him and helped rescue Qu Yangzi, then accompanied her to deliver clothes to One Sword Fox. The chapter ended with One Sword Fox grabbing Mu Yun and offering to examine her, prompting Mu Yun to call for Xiao Bai’s help.

• Xiao Bai used his divine sense to discover that Mu Yun had secretly followed him to protect him and had rescued Qu Yangzi during One Sword Fox’s prison break.
• Xiao Bai visited Mu Yun’s cave and helped her prepare clothes for One Sword Fox while they discussed the prison escape and whether Ling Zhou was a demon.
• Xiao Bai teased Mu Yun about liking him, then followed her toward the bamboo forest as she went to deliver the clothes.
• Mu Yun brought Xiao Bai’s Elder’s Robe to One Sword Fox, who was bathing and recovering from the effects of alcohol and Little Die Xiang.
• One Sword Fox grabbed Mu Yun’s wrist and offered to examine her, so Mu Yun called for Xiao Bai to help change her clothes.

Xiao Bai encountered One Sword Fox while protecting Mu Yun and agreed to trade robes in exchange for learning her Tidal Sword Technique. After changing clothes, One Sword Fox discussed her body and past defeat by You Yazhi, leaving Xiao Bai eager to begin the lesson.

• Mu Yun called for help changing Senior Sister Ling Zhou’s clothes, and Xiao Bai debated whether to assist her.
• One Sword Fox found Xiao Bai hiding behind a boulder and questioned why he was protecting Mu Yun.
• One Sword Fox noticed Xiao Bai’s Elder’s Robe matched her outfit and demanded they trade clothes, offering to teach him martial arts.
• Xiao Bai handed One Sword Fox a backup Elder’s Robe from his storage and watched her change into it.
• One Sword Fox asked whether Xiao Bai liked her body, then explained that it hindered her swordsmanship and that she had lost to You Yazhi.
• Xiao Bai asked One Sword Fox to hurry up and teach him the Tidal Sword Technique.

One Sword Fox failed to teach Xiao Bai the Tidal Sword Technique clearly, then learned that the Dao Alliance had reinstated her and assigned her a mission to find Devil Race remnants. Xiao Bai learned he could not take missions until Foundation Establishment, but confidently told Xuan Shi he would reach it by next month.

• One Sword Fox demonstrated the Tidal Sword Technique, but Xiao Bai could not understand how her simple slashes produced the powerful tidal effects.
• One Sword Fox dodged Xiao Bai’s request for more sword techniques, and Xiao Bai concluded she likely knew little beyond her natural talent and the Tidal Sword Technique.
• Xuan Shi arrived at Hundred Herbs Peak and reinstated One Sword Fox as a Rank B Supervising Constable with a monthly salary of three hundred spirit stones.
• Xuan Shi assigned One Sword Fox to find Devil Race remnants who had helped Qu Yangzi escape prison, and she argued that she shared responsibility for the escape.
• Xiao Bai asked Xuan Shi for a mission, learned he had to reach Foundation Establishment first, and declared he would attain it before next month’s salary was issued.

Xiao Bai told Xuan Shi he could reach Foundation Establishment in a month, then discussed destiny and cultivation with One Sword Fox before she took him toward Chaoge City to investigate the Demonic Scourge. Along the way, Xiao Bai used Remote Sensing to find Mu Yun struggling to suppress demonic qi as a mysterious voice addressed her.

• Xuan Shi left Hundred Herbs Peak to investigate the deaths of Ma Xianchao and Mr. Lun Wang and check the State Overseer's Spiritual Pressure Map.
• One Sword Fox questioned Xiao Bai's claim that he could reach Foundation Establishment in a month, and Xiao Bai argued that women could be Sons of Destiny too.
• One Sword Fox took Xiao Bai toward Chaoge City, saying they would capture the Demonic Scourge and help him build credentials.
• Xiao Bai received a warning of suspected evil activity from Female Lead Xiahou Mu Yun and used Remote Sensing to locate her on the North Cliff Stone Platform.
• Xiao Bai saw a crescent-shaped spiritual mark on Mu Yun's wrist disrupting her spiritual veins as black mist gathered before her, and a Queen's Voice told her she was injured.

Mu Yun received a new order from the Heavenly Demon Honored Master to try to lead Xiao Bai into the demonic path, while Yuhu revealed Ling Zhou’s strange role in ending the war and warned that Mu Yun’s next mission could be a trap. Mu Yun chose to continue toward Chaoge City despite the danger of being exposed.

• The Heavenly Demon Honored Master told Mu Yun that Elder Qu had returned safely and ordered her to make Xiao Bai, Yuhu’s newly accepted Dao companion, fall into the demonic path.
• Mu Yun protested that Xiao Bai had no malice, but accepted the order after the Honored Master explained that it was a test of his character.
• Yuhu appeared after the conversation and told Mu Yun that Ling Zhou had once intervened in the Sect-State War to erase her debtors’ debts, though her actions also helped end the war.
• Yuhu explained that Ling Zhou’s Crescent Spiritual Seal on Mu Yun’s wrist was a mark she left on women she liked, and treated it with medicine while warning that Mu Yun’s demonic qi could soon expose her.
• Yuhu warned Mu Yun that Ling Zhou had been tasked with capturing her and Supervisor Xuan was investigating her killings, but Mu Yun insisted on continuing her mission in Chaoge City.

Mu Yun used a Darkness Flower clone and formations to hide her whereabouts as the Dao Alliance investigated her. Xiao Bai returned to flying with One Sword Fox, whose tests and drunken antics left him hanging upside down from the sword.

• Mu Yun created a Flower Clone Technique double to make it seem she was away from Chaoge City and evade Supervisor Xuan and the Mountain Protecting Array.
• Xiao Bai realized the Dao Alliance might be closing a net around Mu Yun but resolved not to let them capture her.
• Xiao Bai returned from Remote Sensing to find himself riding behind One Sword Fox as she flew through the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• One Sword Fox questioned Xiao Bai about his divine sense and made him guess how many fingers she held up, striking him when he peeked.
• Xiao Bai grabbed One Sword Fox’s breasts while trying to feel her fingers, then stopped her from cutting them off and was knocked unconscious and hung upside down from the sword.