Chapter Summaries

Mu Bai continued impersonating Xuan Jingnian while searching for Xing Yun and the others, but he and the Artifact Spirit Ancestor were nearly caught spying on three women at Peach Blossom Valley. He returned to Kun Third Peak to find the disciples welcoming him as their chief senior brother, though he did not know how Xuan Jingnian had gained the position.

• Mu Bai left Hundred Virtues's hall and decided to remain at the Kunling Sect while seeking Xing Yun and the others.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor secretly watched Wei Yingmei, Qiu Wen, and Lan Zixi at the Spirit Spring, and Mu Bai recorded what he saw.
• Noise from outside startled the women, so Mu Bai fled Peach Blossom Valley before they could catch him.
• Qiu Feng and the disciples of Kun Third Peak welcomed Mu Bai, praising his bearing and greeting him as their chief senior brother.
• Mu Bai learned that the sect's peaks housed its powerful disciples and heard that Xuan Jingnian's disciples had feared for their future after their master and senior brothers died.

Mu Bai returned to Kun Third Peak and was urged to take over as its leader after its master and senior disciples died. Lan Zinuo arranged for him to attend an elders’ meeting, where he encountered the rival peak masters on the way up Kunling Peak’s thousand steps.

• Qiu Feng told Mu Bai that disciples from the Sixth and Seventh Peaks had come to congratulate him on becoming Kun Third Peak’s next master.
• Lan Zinuo comforted Mu Bai over the deaths and urged him to lead the peak’s one hundred thousand disciples, but he repeatedly refused.
• A messenger summoned Kun Third Peak to the elders’ meeting, and Lan Zinuo gave him Supreme Venerable Pills to secure permission for Mu Bai to attend in the master’s place.
• At the Heaven-Treading Steps, Wei Xianchun defended Mu Bai from the taunts of Kun Fourth Peak’s master and threatened to fight him.
• The messenger tucked Mu Bai under his arm and carried him up the thousand steps after the assembly was summoned inside.

Mu Bai attended the Kunling Sect assembly while disguised as Xuan Jingnian, enduring ridicule as he struggled to behave like a peak successor. After returning to Kun Third Peak and being comforted by Lan Zinuo, he was sent to represent the peak at Orchid Fragrance Valley’s Supreme Ceremony.

• The Assembly Hall envoy carried Mu Bai up Kunling Peak, where he stumbled and drew laughter from the assembled leaders and elders.
• Hundred Virtues and Bai Chuan addressed the assembly, and Hundred Virtues ordered the peaks and halls to monitor spreading demonic qi across the Eastern Ridge.
• Mu Bai returned to Kun Third Peak, where Lan Zinuo comforted him and served him snow lotus and silver seed soup.
• A steward delivered an invitation from Orchid Fragrance Valley for its Supreme Ceremony, and Lan Zinuo assigned Mu Bai to attend as Kun Third Peak’s representative.
• Lan Zinuo arranged for several capable junior disciples to accompany Mu Bai and warned them not to disgrace the Third Peak before Kun Fourth Peak.

Mu Bai led the Kun Third Peak delegation to Orchid Fragrance Valley, where he outshone Mo Youde by showering the valley’s disciples with rare Demonic Charm Rainbow Orchids. At the Supreme Ceremony, he pretended he could not hear the Valley Master’s welcome, and the Flower Boat rose above the waterfall so the ceremony could proceed in silence.

• Mu Bai arrived at Orchid Fragrance Valley with the Kun Third Peak delegation and was surrounded by the valley’s female disciples.
• Mo Youde arrived with the Kun Fourth Peak delegation and handed out Spirit Jade Peach Blossoms to the welcoming disciples.
• Mu Bai summoned thousands of rare Demonic Charm Rainbow Orchids, winning the valley disciples’ attention and frustrating Mo Youde’s group.
• The Valley Master and Grand Elder welcomed the envoys, but Mu Bai pretended he could not hear them over the waterfall.
• The Valley Master presented Jing Chen and Ya Ru as the two disciples being appraised at the Supreme Ceremony.
• The Flower Boat rose above the valley until the waterfall’s roar could no longer be heard.

Mu Bai and Mo Youde attended Jing Chen and Ya Ru’s Venerable Ceremony, where Mu Bai’s generous gifts contrasted with Mo Youde’s awkward offering. The headband ritual revealed that Orchid Fragrance Valley disciples used the ceremony to seek powerful patrons, leaving Ya Ru displeased by Mu Bai’s ignorance and Jing Chen unwillingly paired with Mo Youde.

• Mo Youde urged Mu Bai to demonstrate his cultivation against Jing Chen and Ya Ru, but Mu Bai declined and gave each woman a Dao Sea azure pearl.
• Mo Youde presented the women with glazed floral hair ornaments, then realized they were common in the region and felt embarrassed.
• Orchid Fragrance Valley began the ceremony, offered sacrifices to their ancestors, and bestowed ceremonial robes on Jing Chen and Ya Ru.
• Mu Bai tied Ya Ru’s red headband while Mo Youde tied Jing Chen’s, then kissed her brow.
• The ceremony’s custom was explained: disciples used the headband ritual to seek powerful patrons, and Ya Ru returned her headband to Mu Bai.

After Mo Youde assaulted Jing Chen and insulted Orchid Fragrance Valley, the valley master drove him and the Kun Fourth Peak disciples away. Mu Bai stayed for the celebration, where Ye Wan reunited with him beneath the moon and revealed why she had come to the valley.

• Jing Chen returned her forehead band to Mo Youde, who slapped her and insulted her after she refused him.
• The valley master of Orchid Fragrance Valley blasted Mo Youde and his followers from the Flower Boat, and Mo Youde damaged buildings before leaving on the Kun Disk.
• Mu Bai stayed at Orchid Fragrance Valley for the celebration while Ya Ru and Jing Chen regretted their earlier treatment of him and hoped he might choose them.
• Mu Bai left the festivities and thought of Ye Wan while watching the moon beside the waterfall.
• Ye Wan appeared, embraced Mu Bai, and told him she had come to avenge him and seek a way into the Kunling Sect.
• Ye Wan explained that she had wanted to rescue Xing Yun and the others and avenge Mu Bai, but was relieved to find him safe.

Mu Bai left Orchid Fragrance Valley with his junior brothers and sisters after the Artifact Spirit Ancestor revealed he had pursued Ya Ru, then returned to Kunling Sect. There, Mo Youde and Jian Yi were harassing Kun Third Peak, and Mo Youde accused its disciples of stealing a Kunling Herb.

• Ye Wan hid in the Moon Sea Pearl inside Mu Bai’s dantian so she could accompany and protect him in the Kunling Sect.
• Mu Bai found the Artifact Spirit Ancestor in his room and learned he wanted to stay in Orchid Fragrance Valley, but persuaded him to leave by threatening to expose his behavior to the Haibei Tribe.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor admitted he had pursued Ya Ru, and Mu Bai gave her soul crystals and medicinal pills before departing with his junior brothers and sisters.
• After they returned to Kunling Sect, the five junior sisters went to complain to Lan Zinuo while Mo Youde and Jian Yi led a group causing trouble on Kun Third Peak.
• Mo Youde beat a Third Peak disciple, accused him of stealing, and displayed a Kunling Herb before Lan Zinuo and the others.

Mu Bai returned to Third Peak and confronted Mo Youde and Jian Yi, with Hao Feng joining him to stop them from bullying Lan Zinuo. When Jian Yi insulted Bai Yu, Bai Yu killed him with a spear, leaving Hao Feng and the First Peak disciples shocked and warning that Bai Yu had brought trouble upon himself.

• Lan Zinuo offered two thousand-year-old Ice-Fire Branches to repay Fourth Peak for the Kunling Herb, but Mo Youde crushed them and demanded ten slaps instead.
• Mu Bai arrived at Third Peak, stood up for Lan Zinuo, and challenged Mo Youde and Jian Yi; Hao Feng joined him and defended his conduct.
• Jian Yi attacked Hao Feng, but Bai Yu intervened with the Dingkun Spear and was struck in the face when Jian Yi counterattacked.
• Bai Yu recovered, defeated Jian Yi with his spear and fists, and demanded that he stop disrespecting Hao Feng.
• Jian Yi insulted Bai Yu, who drove his spear through Jian Yi's throat and killed him, shocking the First Peak disciples and alarming Hao Feng.

Hao Feng killed Mo Youde after Bai Yu killed Jian Yi, and the two left Kun Third Peak together. Later, Wei Yingmei and Qiu Wen visited Xuan Jingnian’s cave abode, where Mu Bai’s unexplained accessories raised Wei Yingmei’s suspicions.

• Hao Feng slapped Mo Youde and then beheaded him after Mo Youde threatened him.
• Bai Yu and Hao Feng flew away hand in hand while Mu Bai watched, and Enforcement Hall disciples and the First and Fourth Peak masters arrived to investigate the deaths.
• Mu Bai went to Xuan Jingnian’s cave abode and tried to work out how to ask about Xing Yun and the others.
• Wei Yingmei and Qiu Wen came looking for Xuan Jingnian, and Qiu Wen pushed Wei Yingmei and Mu Bai into the cave abode together.
• Wei Yingmei found the ornaments and hairpins Mu Bai had bought, and he explained that he had intended them as gifts but no longer considered them suitable.

Mu Bai learned that Xing Yun and Hu Meier were being kept in Heaven Beyond the Clouds, the Kunling Sect’s most heavily guarded place, and began looking for a way to reach them and escape the sect. Meanwhile, Wei Yingmei’s distress over Xuan Jingnian prompted Wei Xianchun to promise to help improve his cultivation.

• Wei Yingmei asked Mu Bai if she could wear the jade hairpin he had bought, but he questioned her about Qian Hao before Qiu Wen interrupted them.
• Qiu Wen told Mu Bai and Wei Yingmei that a Qian Slave had been killed in the Silver Frost Forest and that Hu Meier was with the injured Holy Son in Heaven Beyond the Clouds.
• Mu Bai dismissed Wei Yingmei and Qiu Wen after learning that Xing Yun and Hu Meier were in Heaven Beyond the Clouds.
• Wei Yingmei cried to Wei Xianchun, then defended Xuan Jingnian the next morning and asked her father to support him.
• Mu Bai resolved to find a way into Heaven Beyond the Clouds, rescue Xing Yun and Hu Meier, and leave the Kunling Sect.

Wei Xianchun confronted Mu Bai, then secretly bargained with Lan Zinuo to send him into the deadly Kun Demon Cave. He persuaded Wei Yingmei to accept the plan by claiming the cave could offer Mu Bai a chance to advance, and gave him an Avatar Jade Slip for protection.

• Wei Xianchun caught Mu Bai trying to flee and threatened him over making Wei Yingmei unhappy.
• Lan Zinuo invited Wei Xianchun into her cave abode and claimed Mu Bai had his support as a future son-in-law.
• Lan Zinuo agreed to Wei Xianchun's request involving Lan Zixi in exchange for Mu Bai being sent to the Kun Demon Cave.
• Wei Xianchun decided to use the Kun Demon Cave to get rid of Mu Bai while keeping within the sect's rules.
• Wei Yingmei accepted the plan after Wei Xianchun said the cave might lead Mu Bai to Heaven Beyond the Clouds and gave him an Avatar Jade Slip.

Mu Bai was sent into the Kun Demon Cave after Wei Xianchun and Lan Zinuo arranged for “Xuan Jingnian” to be punished. He used Wei Xianchun’s one-use phantom to clear a path through the demonic qi and corpse sludge, then tricked it into digging a deep pit before it vanished.

• Enforcement Hall disciples took “Xuan Jingnian” into custody, and Wei Yingmei tearfully promised to wait for his return while Mu Bai accepted her medicinal pills and vowed to survive.
• The Enforcement Hall elder used the Kun Disk and the Qianyuan Ancestral Statue to transport Mu Bai into the Kun Demon Cave.
• Mu Bai summoned Wei Xianchun’s phantom to clear the demonic qi, then repeatedly called it back whenever the path ahead became impassable.
• Wei Xianchun’s phantom grew furious at Mu Bai’s repeated requests but cleared a large pit in the corpse sludge.
• Mu Bai claimed he sensed a great treasure underground, prompting Wei Xianchun’s phantom to drill a hundred zhang down before disappearing; it told Mu Bai to search for treasure alone.

Mu Bai buried Wei Xianchun's Avatar Jade Slip and was attacked by a Rotten Corpse Giant Demon after making a disturbance in the Kun Demon Cave. As Mu Bai fought back, Hao Feng wanted to help him, but Bai Yu urged him to stay focused on their mission to find the Devil Race's legacy.

• Mu Bai tossed Wei Xianchun's Avatar Jade Slip into a pit and filled it with corpse sludge to hide it.
• A Rotten Corpse Giant Demon rose from a mire and pursued Mu Bai, attacking him with a filthy mist and a rain of shredded flesh and blood.
• Mu Bai hid inside the Void Beast Realm to avoid the demon's attack, then emerged and set his White Spirit Cold Flame on its head.
• Mu Bai summoned the God-Devouring Insect and sent it stabbing into the Rotten Corpse Giant Demon's chest.
• Hao Feng wanted to go help the person fighting the Corpse Demon, but Bai Yu argued that they had to protect themselves and search for the Devil Race's legacy.

Mu Bai killed the Rotten Corpse Giant Demon with the Immortal Race Golden Seal while the God-Devouring Insect escaped with its Demon Core. After Hao Feng and Bai Yu left, Mu Bai entered the Void Beast Realm to recover and refine Demon Cores, where the Artifact Spirit Ancestor discovered his Soul Power-nourishing fruit.

• Mu Bai struck the Rotten Corpse Giant Demon with the Immortal Race Golden Seal, and the God-Devouring Insect emerged with the demon's core before the demon dissolved into corpse fluid.
• Mu Bai found his metal-attribute power depleted, then replenished it with help from the Five Elements Inner Core as Hao Feng and Bai Yu arrived.
• Bai Yu recognized the insect as a Demon Body Insect, and Hao Feng gave Mu Bai Hundred Virtues' Avatar Jade Slip before the two departed.
• Mu Bai let the Jade Slip fall into the corpse mire and entered the foul Demonic Qi to search for the God-Devouring Insect, but could not sense it.
• Mu Bai summoned the Void Beast Realm and began recovering in the Three-Legged Crow Cauldron while the Artifact Spirit Ancestor recognized the realm and snatched his remaining fruit.

Mu Bai endured a year of brutal body-refining in the Void Beast Realm under the Artifact Spirit Ancestor’s guidance and learned to use Demon Cores, Demon Blood Fruit, and Origin Water to strengthen himself. He emerged far stronger and resolved to leave the Kun Demon Cave and reach Heaven Beyond the Clouds.

• Mu Bai showed the Artifact Spirit Ancestor his Heavenly Demon Cores and recounted his experiences in the Heavenly Demon Hall.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor added Demon Blood Fruit to Mu Bai’s cauldron, burning him with azure flames before telling him to heal in Origin Water.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor advised Mu Bai to nourish his Inner World with Origin Water and keep the World Tree planted there, then forced him through more rounds of body refining.
• Mu Bai spent a year being tormented and refined, eventually learning to process liquid from more than a dozen Demon Cores at once.
• Mu Bai’s Demonic Qi Armor became solid enough to resist ordinary Soul Treasures, and he wondered whether he could now fight the Corpse Demon.

Mu Bai relied on Hundred Virtues' Avatar Jade Slip to survive the dangers of the Kun Demon Cave while Bai Yu and Hao Feng searched for Qingtian's severed arm. The chapter ended with Bai Yu and Hao Feng fighting a cunning Demonic Baleful Yin Spirit whose yin death qi could silently drain their vitality.

• Mu Bai used the Jade Slip to summon Hundred Virtues' phantom, which crippled a Rotten Corpse Giant Demon before Mu Bai took its Demon Core.
• Mu Bai traveled through the corpse-filled Kun Demon Cave and used the Jade Slip to defeat more demons, including Demonic Baleful Yin Spirits.
• Bai Yu and Hao Feng found the cave exit but continued searching for Qingtian's severed arm, which was said to offer a chance at the Devil Race's highest inheritance.
• Mu Bai spotted Bai Yu and Hao Feng battling an intelligent Demonic Baleful Yin Spirit that split its killing intent from its yin death qi.
• Hao Feng drove the yin death ghost off Bai Yu with righteous qi, then warned him that it could silently drain their vitality.

Mu Bai used Hao Feng’s jade slip to survive the demon cavern while the God-Devouring Insect hunted and devoured others of its kind. He continued toward the exit, with the insect now swollen from its latest meal.

• Mu Bai summoned Hundred Virtues’ phantom to freeze a demonic baleful Yin Spirit, allowing Bai Yu and Hao Feng to destroy it and absorb its energy.
• Bai Yu rebuked Mu Bai for using his jade slip to help, while Hao Feng gave him a Grand Elder’s Jade Slip and directions to the exit.
• After Mu Bai left, Bai Yu and Hao Feng revealed they were searching for the Demon Body Insect to find the Qingtian Demon Arm.
• The God-Devouring Insect found and devoured wispy strands in a stream, then escaped three rivals while swallowing one of them.
• Mu Bai used the Three-Legged Crow Cauldron to stun two pursuing God-Devouring Insects, and his insect devoured both of them.
• Mu Bai continued toward the exit, using Hao Feng’s jade slip to defeat powerful demons as the swollen God-Devouring Insect flew to him.

Mu Bai helped the God-Devouring Insect pursue a Devil Race Supreme Inheritance Fruit hidden atop a mountain of corpses. After learning that a hundred thousand Heavenly Demons had to worship the remains to open the inheritance, Mu Bai burned a hundred thousand Heavenly Demon Cores, and a majestic blue Demon Body appeared to receive their worship.

• The God-Devouring Insect led Mu Bai to a blue fruit tree that the Artifact Spirit Ancestor identified as a Devil Race Supreme Inheritance Fruit.
• Mu Bai held off three powerful Demon Body Insects while the God-Devouring Insect charged for the summit, then gave the insect the roasted creatures to eat.
• Mu Bai and the Artifact Spirit Ancestor trapped dozens more Demon Body Insects, but a blue light screen repelled the God-Devouring Insect and resisted Mu Bai's swords.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor explained that a hundred thousand members of the Heavenly Devil Race had to worship the Supreme for a chance to break through the screen.
• Mu Bai burned a hundred thousand Heavenly Demon Cores, and their flames bowed toward the summit as a towering blue Demon Body appeared to receive the worship.

Mu Bai left the cleansed Kun Demon Cave with Bai Yu and Hao Feng, concealing that he had obtained the Devil Race Supreme Inheritance. At the Kunling Sect’s Heaven Beyond the Clouds Hall, the elders learned that “Xuan Jingnian” had inherited it and tested his demonic body.

• The God-Devouring Insect swallowed the Devil Race Supreme Inheritance Fruit, then sank beneath the collapsing corpse mountain to consume it as well.
• Mu Bai pretended not to understand the blue light and other changes in the cave when Bai Yu and Hao Feng questioned him.
• Mu Bai followed Bai Yu and Hao Feng through a Teleportation Array to Heaven Beyond the Clouds, where Hundred Virtues brought them to the sect’s hidden elders.
• Hao Feng told Ancestor Bai Ying that Xuan Jingnian had obtained the Devil Race inheritance, shocking the Kunling Sect’s elders.
• The central ancestor seized Mu Bai to test his body, and Mu Bai used Gods and Devils Transformation to withstand most of the force.

Mu Bai returned from Heaven Beyond the Clouds after being recognized as the bearer of the Devil Race Supreme Inheritance, and the patriarchs ordered him to go to the Sacred Land while keeping his position as master of Kun Third Peak. He arrived to find Wei Xianchun with Lan Zinuo and Lan Zixi, then asserted his new status and confronted them.

• Mu Bai persuaded the patriarchs that he wanted to remain peak master of Kun Third Peak, and they promised to preserve his position while sending him to the Sacred Land in three days.
• Patriarch Bai Yan and the others discussed the Devil Race Supreme Inheritance and the mission Kunling Sect had pursued for over three thousand years.
• Mu Bai returned to Kun Third Peak accompanied by four Heaven Beyond the Clouds envoys, who ordered the peak to welcome him as its master.
• Wei Xianchun challenged the announcement, but an envoy rebuked him and demanded that he show Mu Bai respect.
• Lan Zinuo begged Mu Bai for mercy, and he identified her and Lan Zixi before teasing them about their disheveled appearance and smell.