Chapter Summaries

Xiao Bai and One Sword Fox arrived in Chaoge City while Mu Yun secretly entered the Imperial Palace and hid in the abandoned Washing Silk Palace. At the Dao Supervision Palace, Xiao Bai helped plan a trap for the Demonic Scourge, though he suspected the Chief Constable was testing him too.

• Xiao Bai discovered through Remote Sensing that Mu Yun had entered Chaoge City ahead of them and disguised herself as a palace maid to infiltrate the Imperial Palace.
• Two Dao Alliance Supervisors summoned Xiao Bai and One Sword Fox to the Dao Supervision Palace, where Chief Constable Xuanyuan Ji received them.
• One Sword Fox told Xuanyuan Ji she believed the Demonic Scourge was in the city and asked him for its location and the reward for first merit.
• Xiao Bai suggested monitoring Foundation Establishment cultivators with spiritual-pressure devices so the Demonic Scourge would trigger a trap if it attacked them.
• Xuanyuan Ji revealed that the State Overseer had prepared similar measures and that the City Protection Great Formation had confined the Demonic Scourge to a local prison in the northwest.

One Sword Fox tried to pawn Qi Shan's sword and her prison wine gourd, but an old debt at Eighteen Pawnshops left her arguing with the owner until she broke her sword. Princess Fei Yue bought the items and gave Xiao Bai a new broadsword, while her remark about demons suggested she might know more about the Demonic Scourge than she let on.

• Xiao Bai and One Sword Fox visited Eighteen Pawnshops, where the owner said she owed thirty thousand spirit stones and refused to accept her sword again.
• One Sword Fox snapped her sword in two and demanded two thousand spirit stones, but the owner refused to pay for the broken blade.
• Princess Fei Yue offered One Sword Fox three thousand spirit stones for Qi Shan's sword and the prison wine gourd, and One Sword Fox accepted.
• Fei Yue greeted Xiao Bai and exchanged a new Black Broadsword for the fire lance she had previously given him.
• Xiao Bai warned Fei Yue about the Demonic Scourge, and Fei Yue replied that demons, monsters, ghosts, and goblins had only ever harmed cultivators.

One Sword Fox brought Xiao Bai to Swallow's Spring Radiance to investigate a suspected Demonic Scourge, while Xiao Bai used Remote Sensing to watch Mu Yun open the Empty Valley Demonic Domain and head for the brothel in disguise. As Mu Yun approached, Xiao Bai tried to send One Sword Fox into a private room and began writing poetry to attract a courtesan.

• One Sword Fox paid the deposit for the Heavenly Character Pavilion, but the Old Immortal Madam reminded her that she still owed the establishment five thousand spirit stones.
• One Sword Fox claimed she had come to catch a Demonic Scourge, and she and Xiao Bai entered the Heavenly Character Pavilion under the alias Xiao Handsome.
• Xiao Bai used Remote Sensing to see Mu Yun open the Empty Valley Demonic Domain over the Imperial Palace and leave disguised as a black-robed man bound for Swallow's Spring Radiance.
• Xiao Bai realized Mu Yun's arrival would complete the Logical Closed Loop and decided he needed to get One Sword Fox into a private room so he could be alone with Mu Yun.
• Xiao Bai took up a brush and began writing a poem in One Sword Fox's tone and signature to catch a courtesan's attention.

Xiao Bai used Li Bai’s poem to help One Sword Fox enter Miss Liansheng’s fan room, then discovered Liansheng was Mu Yun’s clone and moved to confront the demoness. The chapter ended with Xiao Bai intercepting Mu Yun’s attack on a fat Foundation Establishment cultivator, only to be pierced by her tentacles.

• Xiao Bai wrote “Bring in the Wine” and signed it One Sword Fox, whose name frightened an attendant and gained them entry to Miss Liansheng’s fan room.
• One Sword Fox entered the fan room while Xiao Bai stayed outside to watch for Mu Yun, and he sensed Mu Yun approaching with a faint demonic aura.
• A fat, bearded Foundation Establishment cultivator approached Xiao Bai and offered him access to more exciting pleasures.
• Xiao Bai watched through Remote Sensing as One Sword Fox recognized Miss Liansheng as a clone and then collapsed after drinking wine drugged by Yu Hu.
• Xiao Bai realized Mu Yun was targeting the fat cultivator to hide her demonic aura, rushed to protect him, and was pierced in the chest by blood-red tentacles.

Xiao Bai secretly followed Huang Biaobing to a basement where dozens of young Half-Demon girls were imprisoned and exploited. After Huang Biaobing offered them to him, Xiao Bai attacked him, leaving a Darkness Flower blooming from his mouth.

• Mu Yun hid in the Ninth Fan Room after her Darkness Flower failed to kill Xiao Bai, while Xiao Bai absorbed its power and advanced to the Middle Qi Refining Realm.
• Xiao Bai convinced Huang Biaobing that he wanted to see the more exciting entertainment, and Huang Biaobing led him through a secret passage into a sealed basement.
• Mu Yun followed Xiao Bai but could not enter the basement, so she remotely watched him through the third eye on her forehead.
• Xiao Bai found dozens of young Half-Demon girls imprisoned in a cage and learned that Huang Biaobing meant to offer them to him.
• Xiao Bai pierced Huang Biaobing's chest and flooded his body with demonic power, declaring, "No. I only pick you."

Mu Yun realized Xiao Bai had attacked Huang Biaobing to protect her and the imprisoned half-demons, while Xiao Bai fought Huang Biaobing in the underground chamber. Xiao Bai killed Huang Biaobing with the Black Broadsword, and the system awarded him a Heavenly Dao Grand Gift Bag.

• Mu Yun recognized that Huang Biaobing’s artifact had tried to reveal her location and realized Xiao Bai had stepped in to protect her.
• Xiao Bai attacked Huang Biaobing with the Darkness Flower and fought him while the imprisoned half-demon girls cheered him on.
• Huang Biaobing summoned a Foundation Establishment-stage black tiger, but the girls’ stories unsettled the beast and forced Huang Biaobing to recall it.
• Huang Biaobing shattered Xiao Bai’s sword and ribs, but Xiao Bai recovered and shot Huang Biaobing’s dantian with the Black Broadsword.
• Xiao Bai beheaded Huang Biaobing, and the system awarded him a Heavenly Dao Grand Gift Bag for foiling Xiahou Mu Yun’s supposed evil act.

After Xiao Bai defeated Huang Biaobing, he became trapped underground with the half-demon girls as Dao Alliance constables closed in on Mu Yun. He drew the Divine Grade Sequence Myriad Phenomena Resonance, used it to break through the stone wall, and escaped just as Mu Yun remotely activated the Vermilion Bird Demon Slip over Chaoge City.

• Xiao Bai confirmed Huang Biaobing was dead, destroyed the evidence, and found he could not open the iron cage or the underground doors to free the half-demon girls.
• Xiao Bai learned that One Sword Fox was asleep and that Dao Alliance Supervising Constables were approaching Mu Yun, leaving him trapped underground with the girls.
• Xiao Bai drew the yellow Heavenly Dao Grand Gift Bag and gained the first-order Myriad Phenomena Resonance art, Inanimate Object Resonance.
• Xiao Bai listened to the stone wall’s inner breath and used Resonance to shatter the wall and its formation, escaping the underground chamber.
• Mu Yun saw Xiao Bai escape, then remotely activated the buried Vermilion Bird Demon Slip as constables surrounded the area and Xuanyuan Ji arrived.
• The Vermilion Bird Demon Slip released vast demonic power over Chaoge City, triggering the City Protection Great Formation’s alarm as the night sky tore open and golden light poured down.

A Vermilion Bird answered the rescue of thirty-three half-demon girls in Chaoge City, while Mu Yun escaped the Dao Alliance’s encirclement with Xiao Bai as her hostage. Xiao Bai recovered from losing a kidney and agreed to help Mu Yun flee, leaving them to take his chosen route through the pursuing constables.

• A Vermilion Bird pillar descended on Chaoge City, freed thirty-three half-demon girls, and recognized Xiao Bai as Andy Lau before vanishing.
• You Yazhi stayed fishing in the Cambrian Kingdom and dismissed concerns that the distant divine beast would destroy Chaoge City.
• Mu Yun swept Xiao Bai away in black mist, wounded a Rank B Supervising Constable, and used Xiao Bai’s removed kidney to make the pursuers hesitate.
• Mu Yun apologized, treated Xiao Bai’s wound, and revealed that she was a Demoness from the Heavenly Demon Sect; Xiao Bai agreed to serve as her cauldron after learning she was female.
• Mu Yun chose to trust Xiao Bai when he urged her to charge through the encirclement and offered to guide her along the best route.

Xiao Bai weakened the City Protection Great Formation’s thunder strike and escaped Chaoge City with Mu Yun into the Monster Beast Mountain Range. After hiding in a cave and helping Mu Yun seal her Demon Core, he proposed Dual Rest to suppress her demonic energy before Xuanyuan Ji’s search party found them.

• Xiao Bai used Resonance Power and an uneven section of the city wall to divert most of the formation thunder away from Mu Yun, then fled with her toward the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• Mu Yun told Xiao Bai that Du Ya might meet them, but Xiao Bai persuaded her to seal her Demon Core and disperse her demonic aura so they could hide.
• Xiao Bai accelerated his sword flight through resonance with the blizzard, air, gravity, and space, carrying Mu Yun more than a hundred li to a concealed beast-den cave.
• Xuanyuan Ji concluded that Mu Yun had forced Xiao Bai to help her hide, ordered a carpet search, and warned the Supervising Dao Army not to harm Constable Xiao.
• Xiao Bai and Mu Yun settled inside the cave, and Mu Yun changed her face to a woman’s before Xiao Bai insisted they hurry and begin Dual Rest.

During Dual Rest with Mu Yun, Xiao Bai absorbed her demonic power and advanced to Foundation Establishment before learning her Earth-rank Red Lotus technique. The pair prepared to leave the cave, but Mu Yun sensed Du Ya approaching.

• Mu Yun revealed her Flower Demon form during Dual Rest, and Xiao Bai absorbed her demonic power until he reached initial Foundation Establishment.
• A yellow vixen watched them in the cave, and Xiao Bai stopped briefly before continuing Dual Rest with Mu Yun.
• Mu Yun suppressed her demonic energy but remained injured and weakened, while Xiao Bai offered to take her away from the pursuing forces.
• Mu Yun explained her semi-artificial Demon Core and agreed to teach Xiao Bai the Red Lotus forbidden art.
• Mu Yun struck Xiao Bai with Red Lotus, and his Modifier taught him the technique at its maximum level after he recovered.
• Mu Yun sensed that the attack had drawn nearby Devil Race pursuers and identified the approaching figure as Du Ya.

Xiao Bai and Mu Yun faced Du Ya in a cave after he came to offer help, then revealed his plan to kill Mu Yun and claim her position. Xiao Bai killed Du Ya with Resonance Power and Red Lotus, leaving the pair able to escape with their pursuer dead.

• Mu Yun explained that Du Ya resented her appointment as chief of foreign affairs and might attack her, while Xiao Bai told her to recover and keep her demonic aura restrained.
• Du Ya arrived in the cave, demanded that Mu Yun surrender her position in exchange for help, then admitted he intended to kill her instead.
• Xiao Bai shot Du Ya from behind, withstood the Giant Crow's ambush using Resonance Power, and shattered its body while destroying the Black Crows delivering medicine.
• Du Ya sent the recovering Giant Crow after Mu Yun and used a flock of Black Crows to wear Xiao Bai down, but Xiao Bai formed Red Lotus and cracked Du Ya's Demon Core.
• Xiao Bai crushed Du Ya's Demon Core with Resonance Power and told the dying Du Ya that he could save them after his death.

Xiao Bai covered up Mu Yun’s escape by framing the slain Du Ya as the Demonic Scourge, then convinced the Supervising Dao Army that he had killed the demon and survived its possession. After the evidence supported his story, Zhang Wenyin began questioning him despite Xiao Bai’s objections, and asked whether he had known the Demonic Scourge beforehand.

• Mu Yun disguised Du Ya’s shattered Demon Core with her own demonic qi and escaped toward the Heavenly Demon Sect, while Xiao Bai staged injuries and prepared for the Supervising Dao Army’s arrival.
• Xuanyuan Ji and the Supervising Dao Army found Xiao Bai in the cave, where he claimed he had killed the Demonic Scourge and presented Du Ya’s Demon Core fragments and the captured Giant Crow as evidence.
• Xiao Bai explained that the demon’s Black Crow demonic qi had helped him reach Foundation Establishment, and the army found no obvious flaws in his account.
• An internal examination found Xiao Bai was human, had no demonic qi in his dantian, and carried only trace demonic qi outside it; the Demon Core’s residue matched the City Protection Great Formation’s records.
• Xuan Shi brought Zhang Yufeng’s account of a Black Crow-controlling Demonic Scourge attack, and Xuanyuan Ji concluded that Xiao Bai’s innocence was essentially confirmed.
• Zhang Wenyin entered the examination room to question Xiao Bai, who challenged his authority; Zhang asked whether Xiao Bai had known the Demonic Scourge beforehand.

Xiao Bai endured Zhang Wenyin’s questioning until One Sword Fox burst into the Dao Supervision Palace and forced the State Overseer to back down. After the pair went gambling to expose cheating, One Sword Fox lost their winnings and was left sobbing outside at dawn.

• Xiao Bai refused to answer Zhang Wenyin’s questions, then claimed he had advanced by relying on women when asked about his rapid rise.
• One Sword Fox crashed into the questioning room, seized Zhang Wenyin, and demanded Grade A Merit and reward money for herself and Xiao Bai.
• Xuanyuan Ji sent Xiao Bai and One Sword Fox away while promising to settle the matter after finding Dao Supervision Envoy Lord.
• One Sword Fox took Xiao Bai to a gambling house, exposed the shopkeeper’s cheating, and collected ten thousand spirit stones.
• One Sword Fox lost twelve thousand spirit stones at a second gambling house and cried in Xiao Bai’s arms at dawn, while Xiao Bai told her at least her pants were still on.

Xiao Bai flirted with Miss Liansheng while Remote Sensing revealed Mu Yun’s recovery and her conversation with the Sovereign about Xiao Bai’s growing power and the Demon Alliance. After One Sword Fox discovered his unusual tremor ability, she told him the new Sect Overseer had arrived and left an urgent mission in his hands.

• Xiao Bai got drunk before collecting One Sword Fox’s deposit, and Old Immortal Madam let them rest in the Ninth Fan Room.
• Xiao Bai charmed Miss Liansheng and played the zither with her, while Remote Sensing showed Mu Yun reacting through their linked senses.
• The Sovereign praised Mu Yun’s handling of Du Ya’s death, learned Xiao Bai had reached Foundation Establishment, and warned that the Demon Alliance might target him.
• Mu Yun agreed to keep Xiao Bai out of the Demon Alliance’s hands and investigate what Yuhu intended to do with him.
• One Sword Fox kicked Xiao Bai and sensed his unusual tremor power, then announced the new Sect Overseer had arrived and handed him her urgent mission.

Xiao Bai and One Sword Fox received rewards and were assigned to secretly investigate the Demon Alliance’s planned attack on the Snow Flame Sect. As they traveled back, Xiao Bai remotely sensed Master Yuhu speaking with Lord Xuanxiao, who revealed that the final assault was near and set out to test One Sword Fox’s strength.

• Lu Youwei greeted One Sword Fox, and Xuanyuan Ji awarded her and Xiao Bai spirit stones and Class B Merit for slaying demons.
• One Sword Fox required Xiao Bai to remain her partner, and Lu Youwei assigned them to covertly investigate the Demon Alliance’s forces and plans near the Snow Flame Sect.
• One Sword Fox and Xiao Bai flew toward the Snow Flame Sect, discussed the Dao Alliance and their partnership, and joked about dual cultivation and gambling.
• The Modifier alerted Xiao Bai to suspected evil conduct by Master Yuhu, and Xiao Bai used Remote Sensing to observe her in the pill room.
• Master Yuhu told Lord Xuanxiao that she knew the Mountain Protecting Array’s core and explained that One Sword Fox’s limits remained unknown.
• Lord Xuanxiao decided to confront One Sword Fox and measure her strength.

Xiao Bai tried to persuade One Sword Fox to conceal her strength during their infiltration, but an initial Soul Severing Realm demon ambushed their skyship and forced them into battle. One Sword Fox carried Xiao Bai into a Snow Accumulation Cloud to confront the hidden owl demon.

• Xiao Bai decided he needed One Sword Fox to help weaken the Demon Alliance without giving the Dao Alliance an excuse to take control of the Snow Flame Sect.
• One Sword Fox said she had held back against You Yazhi and argued that killing a great demon quickly might deter the Demon Alliance from attacking the Snow Flame Sect.
• Xiao Bai asked One Sword Fox to fake defeat if they were attacked, but she preferred to kill the enemy in one strike and earn Grade A Merit.
• A great demon struck their Dao Alliance Skyship from above, destroying it, while One Sword Fox shielded Xiao Bai and they fell into a snow-covered forest.
• One Sword Fox climbed a snow cedar and learned from Xiao Bai that an owl-like great demon had ambushed them; she then carried him into a Snow Accumulation Cloud to confront it.

Xiao Bai and One Sword Fox escaped Mysterious Owl after Xiao Bai’s Resonance Power disrupted her Tidal Force, leaving her unable to fight effectively. In an underground ice cave, One Sword Fox retaliated against Xiao Bai, then warned him not to mistake his vibration technique for power over her.

• Mysterious Owl identified himself as the Demon Alliance’s Rooster Division Third Helmsman and attacked One Sword Fox in the Snow Accumulation Cloud.
• One Sword Fox tried to strike Mysterious Owl with Xiao Bai’s sword, but its spell seals weakened her Tidal Force, and Mysterious Owl swallowed her Sword Qi with Beast Flame.
• Xiao Bai used Resonance Power on One Sword Fox as she raised her defenses, disrupting her control and forcing her to carry him underground to escape.
• Mysterious Owl searched for the pair but lost their trail and concluded that One Sword Fox was not especially powerful.
• One Sword Fox confronted Xiao Bai in an underground ice cave, then used Tidal Force to leave him severely dehydrated before he revived himself in a pool.
• One Sword Fox told Xiao Bai she had washed her feet and urinated in the pool, then pinched his face and warned that she could deal with him whenever she wanted.

One Sword Fox brought Xiao Bai back to the Snow Flame Sect, where he encountered Mu Yun bathing and watched the two women exchange tense remarks. Yu Hu later took Xiao Bai to her pill room, revealed that she was a demon, and questioned him about Mu Yun and One Sword Fox before he offered to demonstrate his Resonance Cultivation Technique.

• One Sword Fox brought Xiao Bai to Mu Yun’s hot spring, where she noticed Mu Yun’s missing moon mark and remarked that she looked more human than herself.
• One Sword Fox joined Mu Yun in the spring, and the two traded barbs while Xiao Bai secretly watched them with Remote Sensing.
• Yu Hu arrived and gave One Sword Fox a pill for the effects of her palace-body contractions, then led Xiao Bai to her pill room.
• Yu Hu restrained Xiao Bai on the Black Stone Platform and asked how the demoness had tasted, revealing that she knew Mu Yun’s identity.
• Yu Hu examined Xiao Bai’s perfect Foundation Establishment and lingering demonic qi, then revealed that she was a demon herself.
• Xiao Bai explained that his Resonance Cultivation Technique could resonate with all things and claimed it might surpass One Sword Fox’s Tidal Force, prompting Yu Hu to ask for proof.

After gaining Demonic Power from Yuhu and reaching the Mid Foundation Establishment Realm, Xiao Bai learned the Demon Alliance would attack the Snow Flame Sect and prepared to face the coming conflict. One Sword Fox then revealed that Lu Youwei would ascend Sword Wielding Peak in three days to inherit the Swastika Spirit Sword.

• Xiao Bai had Yuhu stitch his abdominal wound before using Resonance Power, and he gained Dual Rest Demonic Power that raised his cultivation to the Mid Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Yuhu gave Xiao Bai Spirit Recovery Pills, Spirit Salt Grass, and Spirit Water, then warned him not to visit Sword Wielding Peak for at least half a month because she wanted him to live.
• After Xiao Bai left, Yuhu reflected on her growing feelings for him and suspected that he and One Sword Fox were unusual beings connected to the world's coming changes.
• Xiao Bai replenished his strength with Spirit Salt Grass, then joined Mu Yun and One Sword Fox at the pool and agreed to wash both women's clothes.
• One Sword Fox told Xiao Bai that the Dao Alliance had already warned the Snow Flame Sect about the Demon Alliance's impending attack and that Master Chun Xiao would likely summon him.
• One Sword Fox revealed that Lu Youwei would ascend Sword Wielding Peak in three days to inherit the Swastika Spirit Sword.

Xiao Bai decided to inherit the Swastika Spirit Sword despite Mu Yun warning that competing with the new Sect Overseer could make the challenge deadly. After Mu Yun revealed herself as a Demoness and fled, she reported the impending attack and sword inheritance to the Venerable Lord, then returned to the pool and fell asleep beside Xiao Bai.

• Mu Yun explained that the Swastika Spirit Sword let its wielder cast spells through the blade, and Xiao Bai resolved to inherit it before the Dao Alliance could claim it.
• Mu Yun warned that inheriting the sword alongside the Sect Overseer could raise the challenge to Nascent Soul Level, but Xiao Bai remained determined and asked Sect Master True Person about it the next day.
• Xiao Bai teased Mu Yun and grabbed her foot, causing her to transform into mist and flee; One Sword Fox realized Mu Yun was a Demoness and tried to chase her.
• Xiao Bai stopped One Sword Fox from pursuing Mu Yun, and the two drank and soaked in the pool until they fell asleep.
• Mu Yun visited Yu Hu in the Pill Room, then used the Black Mist Snail Cluster to tell the Venerable Lord that the Demon Alliance was attacking Snow Flame Sect and that the new Supervisor planned to inherit the Swastika Spirit Sword.
• Mu Yun returned to the pool, leaned against Xiao Bai, and fell asleep beside him.