Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen returned to the Ye Household and revealed how much he had advanced in the Black-Yellow Sect before setting out to gain experience. In Spirit Yang City, Yang Yang killed the corrupt Blazing Sun Sect elder Xu Can, robbed his treasury, and left Xu Can’s servants fleeing.

• Ye Chen reunited with Ye Long and told him he had reached the Body Forging Realm and was the Black-Yellow Sect’s eldest disciple.
• Ye Chen stayed at the Ye Household for a few days, then left to gain experience and spread the Black-Yellow Sect’s name.
• Yang Yang returned to Spirit Yang City, feasted on local food, and decided to kill Xu Can to stop his crimes and obtain money.
• Yang Yang infiltrated Xu Can’s residence, snapped his treasured saber, and killed him by crushing his neck.
• Yang Yang took the silver and spirit medicines from Xu Can’s treasury, while the guards and servants looted the residence and fled.

Yang Yang killed Xu Can and completed one of the Black-Yellow Sect’s required tasks, while Ye Chen spread the sect’s name through good deeds. Lin Ye took Han Bing to Changping Valley to cultivate in its abundant Corpse Sha Qi, where Han Bing rapidly advanced to the Fourth Layer of the Body Forging Realm and achieved minor success in his Silver Body.

• Yang Yang returned to the inn with a large haul, and Lin Ye learned that he had killed a sect disciple.
• Jiang Feng investigated Xu Can’s murder, but the Blazing Sun Sect found no clues and dropped the case after appointing a new steward.
• Xu Yan found that the Ye Household had fled and decided to seek them out later through the Spirit Yang City Lord’s Manor.
• Ye Chen killed the bandits who had attacked a village, freed their captives, gave money to the villagers, and urged them to spread the Black-Yellow Sect’s name.
• Lin Ye brought Han Bing to Changping Valley and buried him in a Corpse Sha Formation so he could cultivate in the dense Corpse Sha Qi.
• Han Bing broke through to the Second Layer of the Body Forging Realm on the second day, the Third Layer on the third day, and the Fourth Layer with minor success in his Silver Body on the fifth day.

Lin Ye reached the Innate Realm First Layer through Han Bing’s breakthrough, while Ye Chen killed a group of evil Blazing Sun Sect disciples and became convinced that the Black-Yellow Sect alone upheld justice. Ye Chen left to spread the sect’s reputation, believing his master had sent him to expose the Blazing Sun Sect’s corruption.

• Lin Ye reached the Innate Realm First Layer after Han Bing achieved minor mastery of the Silver Body and broke through to the Body Forging Realm Fourth Layer.
• Han Bing advanced to the Body Forging Realm Fifth Layer, while Lin Ye noticed that Ye Chen had filled two more sect disciple slots by killing sect members.
• Ye Chen killed two sect disciples who controlled a bandit stronghold, then fought and killed a blood-robed Blazing Sun Sect disciple who attacked him.
• Ye Chen found and destroyed evil cultivation methods in the dead disciple’s Storage Bag, then distributed the stronghold’s money and spread word of the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Ye Chen concluded that the Black-Yellow Sect was righteous and that the Blazing Sun Sect was riddled with demonic spies, and his State of Mind rose.

Ye Chen met Yang Yang in Spirit Yang City and agreed to enter the Bai Household’s martial arts contest to spread the Black-Yellow Sect’s name. Meanwhile, Lin Ye gained the Formless Demonic Body, adapted it for his disciples, and sent it to Ye Chen and Yang Yang so they could conceal their demonic Qi signatures.

• Ye Chen found Yang Yang eating in a tavern, and the two shared a meal before discussing their assigned task.
• Yang Yang proposed that Ye Chen enter the Bai Household’s martial arts contest and refuse the marriage after winning, drawing attention to the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Ye Chen agreed to Yang Yang’s plan, and the two spent the days before the contest eating and drinking around Spirit Yang City.
• Han Bing reached the Body Forging Realm Sixth Layer, and the breakthrough feedback raised Lin Ye to the Innate Realm Second Layer.
• Lin Ye signed in and obtained the Formless Demonic Body, a secret method that could conceal even demonic Qi signatures.
• Lin Ye renamed the method the Formless Secret Method and sent it to Ye Chen and Yang Yang through their identity tokens.

Ye Chen and Yang Yang learned the Formless Secret Method, then Ye Chen entered the Bai Household’s martial arts contest for a bride in Spirit Yang City. After winning every match, he refused to marry Bai Xuan’er, infuriating Bai Jiuzhong.

• Ye Chen received the Formless Secret Method from his master and learned that it could disguise his Qi and slightly alter his appearance.
• Ye Chen and Yang Yang mastered the basics of the Formless Secret Method, while Lin Ye later passed the Formless Demonic Body to Han Bing after he left Changping Valley.
• At the Bai Household’s contest, Yang Yang told Ye Chen that the previous two winners had died, so Ye Chen decided to stick to his original plan and refuse the marriage.
• Ye Chen entered the arena as an inner disciple of the Black-Yellow Sect and defeated each challenger with a light slap, revealing his Body Forging Realm cultivation.
• Bai Jiuzhong declared Ye Chen the winner and asked if he would marry Bai Xuan’er, but Ye Chen said he had entered for a reward and refused, enraging Bai Jiuzhong.

Ye Chen and Yang Yang disrupted the Bai Household’s bride-winning contest, using the confrontation to spread the Black-Yellow Sect’s fame through Spirit Yang City. As the sect’s reputation climbed, the two disciples prepared to join the Demon Suppression Bureau so they could find wrongdoers through its missions.

• Ye Chen tried to leave the Bai Household’s contest, but Bai Jiuzhong ordered his people to seize him until Yang Yang stepped in and wounded Bai Jiuzhong in a fight.
• Yang Yang explained to Ye Chen that he had challenged Bai Jiuzhong to make the Black-Yellow Sect seem powerful, and revealed his suspicions about Bai Xuan’er and the Bai Household.
• The contest ended early, and word of Ye Chen, Yang Yang, and the Black-Yellow Sect spread through Spirit Yang City.
• Lin Ye saw the sect’s fame rise past seventy thousand, while Han Bing advanced to the seventh level of the Body Forging Realm and Lin Ye gained progress in the Innate Realm.
• Ye Chen and Yang Yang decided to apply as outside members of the Demon Suppression Bureau so they could use its intelligence and missions to find evildoers.

Ye Chen and Yang Yang completed three Demon Suppression Bureau missions by killing three Blazing Sun Sect disciples on Black Wolf Mountain and escaping a True Qi Realm elder. The Blazing Sun Sect traced the attackers to the Black-Yellow Sect, and Elder Huangpu suspected they possessed a powerful inheritance or treasure.

• Ye Chen and Yang Yang accepted missions to kill Zhou Qing, Qian Dashan, and Li Wu, then infiltrated the Blazing Sun Sect outpost on Black Wolf Mountain.
• Ye Chen and Yang Yang killed patrol disciples, took a formation token, and harvested the medicinal garden’s spirit medicine.
• Ye Chen used a Peak Body Casting Realm puppet to kill the three wanted disciples, then escaped with Yang Yang after two puppets blocked a True Qi Realm elder’s sword strike.
• Ye Chen and Yang Yang returned to the Demon Suppression Bureau the next morning and exchanged their Demon Merit for pills, while Yang Yang refined spirit medicine to raise his cultivation.
• Lin Ye learned that his disciples had met the sect-killing quota, while the Blazing Sun Sect investigated the attackers and linked them to the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Elder Huangpu ordered an investigation of the Black-Yellow Sect and suspected its disciples had obtained a martial arts inheritance or a powerful expert’s treasure.

Lin Ye claimed powerful system rewards, perfected the Heavenly Devil Heaven-Imprisoning Palm, and revived the Black-Yellow Sect’s Spirit Vein. The chapter ended with Elder Huangpu and Blazing Sun Sect disciples arriving at the sect gate, where Lin Ye confronted them.

• The system announced that Lin Ye had completed a mission and rewarded him with a heaven-tier martial art, an enlightenment card, a Spirit Vein, Spirit Stones, and an Artifact Refining Treasure Hall, while upgrading the system to reveal disciple loyalty.
• Lin Ye used the enlightenment card to master the Heavenly Devil Heaven-Imprisoning Palm and placed the Artifact Refining Treasure Hall near the sect’s main hall.
• Lin Ye merged the low-level Spirit Vein into the sect’s incomplete Spirit Vein, increasing the Spiritual Qi concentration fivefold, and told Yu Yu to resume cultivating.
• Lin Ye checked his disciples’ loyalty, then summoned Ye Chen and Yang Yang back to the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Elder Huangpu led Blazing Sun Sect disciples up the mountain, and Lin Ye met them at the sect gate.

Lin Ye defeated the Blazing Sun Sect elder Huangpu, ransomed him for silver and martial arts, and expanded the Black-Yellow Sect. The system then activated the Sin Ranking and gave Lin Ye’s disciples one month to enter its top one hundred.

• Huangpu demanded entry to the Black-Yellow Sect, but Lin Ye struck him down with the Heavenly Devil Heaven-Imprisoning Palm and ordered a surviving Blazing Sun Sect disciple to deliver a ransom demand.
• Lin Ye had Huangpu guarded, and Yu Yu learned that Lin Ye had reached the Innate Realm.
• Ye Chen and Yang Yang returned to the sect, and Yang Yang concluded that Lin Ye was an Innate Realm expert.
• Xu Jinyang sent silver and martial arts to ransom the crippled Huangpu, while Lin Ye recruited new outer sect and menial disciples.
• The system activated the Sin Ranking and tasked Lin Ye’s disciples with reaching its top one hundred within a month.

Lin Ye realized his disciples could rise on the Sin Ranking by killing its notorious evildoers, so he issued assassination tasks with generous rewards. Dongfang Bai and Yang Yang completed their missions, and by morning Ye Chen had climbed five places and neared the top hundred.

• Lin Ye found that Ye Chen and Yang Yang ranked 109th and 123rd on the Sin Ranking, then decided to have his disciples kill the listed evildoers to improve their standings.
• Lin Ye copied the evildoers' details and issued killing tasks, including a 300-point task to kill Ren Changhe.
• Dongfang Bai found evidence of Ren Changhe's infant sacrifices, then killed Ren Changhe and his guards and claimed the task reward.
• Yang Yang attacked the Li Household, killed Li Kaitai and Li Xuanshi's mother, and executed Li Xuanshi for murdering villagers.
• Lin Ye confirmed that all five disciples had completed tasks and that Ye Chen had risen five places, nearing the Sin Ranking's top hundred.

Ye Chen and his companions cleared a Mystic Blood Devil Sect stronghold in Green Fang Village, using a True Qi Realm Peak puppet to defeat its deacon. As the disciples continued cultivating, their progress boosted Lin Ye to the Innate Realm Fifth Layer.

• Lin Ye assigned missions against evildoers, and his disciples continued hunting them while concealing their identities.
• Ye Chen, Dongfang Bai, and three other disciples went to Green Fang Village, where Mystic Blood Devil Sect disciples surrounded them.
• Yang Yang and the others killed the village’s devil path disciples, but the deacon revived the corpses with a white bone banner.
• Ye Chen used Lin Ye’s True Qi Realm Peak puppet to kill the deacon and the remaining enemies, and Yang Yang kept the banner.
• The disciples returned to the Black-Yellow Sect, then spent the next ten days hunting Demon Beasts and cultivating with the Devil Spring.
• Lin Ye broke through to the Innate Realm Fifth Layer as the disciples’ progress fed back into his cultivation.

Ye Chen, Yang Yang, and Han Bing assassinated Tu Hu in Spirit Yang City and returned safely, helping complete Lin Ye’s Sin Ranking mission. Lin Ye claimed the rewards and established the Battle Tower, where Yang Yang later used a Flood Dragon Blood Pill to reach the peak of the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer.

• Ye Chen, Yang Yang, and Han Bing killed several people on the Sin Ranking in Spirit Yang City, then ambushed and killed Tu Hu before fleeing with his corpse.
• Lin Ye checked the Sin Ranking and saw that all five of his disciples had entered its top hundred.
• After the mission ended, Lin Ye claimed the rewards, including the Devil-Battling Tower, and renamed it the Battle Tower.
• Ye Chen and the other disciples challenged the tower’s Devil Race opponents, but only Yang Yang and Han Bing cleared the second floor.
• Lin Ye set point rewards for clearing floors and placed Flood Dragon Blood Pills in the tower for disciples to exchange.
• Yang Yang exchanged points for a Flood Dragon Blood Pill and refined it, reaching the peak of the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer.

Lin Ye gave Yang Yang and Han Bing heaven-tier cultivation methods, and their breakthroughs raised Lin Ye to the Innate Realm Seventh Layer. Meanwhile, Xu Yan lured Ye Chen away from the Black-Yellow Sect and attacked him, but she escaped after he overwhelmed her.

• Lin Ye gave Yang Yang the Taotie Swallowing Heaven Instruction and Han Bing the Supreme Yin Golden Body Instruction, then distributed cultivation methods to his other disciples.
• Yang Yang and Han Bing broke through to the True Qi Realm, and their tenfold feedback advanced Lin Ye to the Innate Realm Seventh Layer.
• Xu Yan asked Yu Shaoqing to locate Ye Chen, learned that he had joined the Black-Yellow Sect, and sent him a false letter claiming the Ye Household was in trouble.
• Ye Chen descended from the mountain and confronted Xu Yan, who admitted she planned to kill him and then destroy the Ye Household.
• Ye Chen overpowered Xu Yan with his techniques, but she escaped using a teleportation talisman or treasure and left behind her Supreme Simplicity sword.

After Ye Chen reported that Xu Yan had left behind a sword marked with the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s name, Lin Ye decided to send a spy into the all-female sect. Dongfang Bai volunteered and received tools and supplies before preparing to depart the next day.

• Ye Chen told Lin Ye that Xu Yan had ambushed him, escaped after he injured her, and left behind a Supreme Simplicity Sword; Lin Ye reassured him that the sect was unlikely to retaliate.
• The system assigned Lin Ye a long-term mission to infiltrate the Supreme Simplicity Sect and gather intelligence, so he called his five disciples together to choose a spy.
• Yang Yang was ruled out because he was male, and Han Bing suggested that Dongfang Bai could pass as a woman; Dongfang Bai volunteered instead of his sister, Dongfang Rou.
• Lin Ye gave Dongfang Bai six needle-type Law Treasures, spirit stones, a Heaven-rank secret method, communication talismans, and a Black-Yellow Jade that was actually Devil Jade.
• Dongfang Bai left to prepare for his mission, while Lin Ye planned to use the Devil Jade to help his disciples find people suited to the Supreme Devil Dao System.

Dongfang Bai traveled to the Supreme Simplicity Sect and excelled in its combat and comprehension assessments. He entered the final illusion-array stage, where the sect’s elders had been notified of his promising performance.

• Dongfang Bai left the Black-Yellow Sect and traveled to the Supreme Simplicity Sect, while Xu Yan asked Li Xuansu to avenge her and was refused.
• Dongfang Bai reached Supreme Simplicity City, learned how the sect recruited disciples, and applied to join using his orphan background.
• Dongfang Bai passed the combat stage by defeating the array’s opponents with the Taiyi Needle Technique.
• Dongfang Bai quickly mastered Gauze Smoke Steps and passed the comprehension stage.
• The female deacon sent word to the elders about Dongfang Bai’s strong performance before he entered the illusion-array stage.

Dongfang Bai passed all three rounds of the Illusion Array Trial by resisting temptation, fighting demonic path disciples to save a child, and ignoring a villager’s martial manual and resources. The Supreme Simplicity Sect elders praised her and competed to take her as a disciple.

• Li Xuansu hurried to the Illusion Array Trial after hearing that a promising talent wanted to join the sect.
• Dongfang Bai rejected the illusion of handsome men and defeated them with silver needles.
• Dongfang Bai attacked demonic path disciples, wounded a True Qi Realm martial artist, and tried to carry a child to safety before the illusion ended.
• Dongfang Bai ignored the high-grade Earth-tier martial art and resources in the final illusion, completing the assessment.
• The elders called Dongfang Bai a flawless talent and argued over who would take her as a disciple; when she emerged, they all invited her to join them.

Dongfang Bai joined Supreme Yin Peak as an inner disciple of the Supreme Simplicity Sect and began learning about the sect while hiding his identity as a man. He met Xu Yan, then examined his new cultivation materials as Lin Ye wondered how Dongfang Bai was faring.

• Dongfang Bai chose Supreme Yin Peak, and Li Xuansu enrolled him as an inner disciple while the elders of other peaks complained about losing him.
• Li Xuansu gave Dongfang Bai his standard equipment and explained the sect's meager monthly allowance of one Low-Grade Spirit Stone; he declined her offer to become his master, claiming he had sworn to an elderly Rogue Cultivator.
• Li Xuansu showed Dongfang Bai his residence and described Supreme Yin Peak's elders, disciples, and servants, while Dongfang Bai marveled at the sect's strength.
• Dongfang Bai asked to meet the senior sisters, and Li Xuansu introduced him to Xu Yan, who showed him around the peak and invited him to bathe in the Supreme Yin Spring; he refused to avoid exposing his secret.
• Dongfang Bai found the issued Cultivation Methods and martial arts unsuited to him, while Lin Ye wondered whether the Supreme Simplicity Sect would value him.

Dongfang Bai sent Lin Ye intelligence about the Supreme Simplicity Sect, earning Lin Ye a sword technique and other rewards. Lin Ye sent Yang Yang to deliver Bixie Swordsmanship to Dongfang Bai, and Yang Yang reached Supreme Simplicity City and contacted him.

• Dongfang Bai learned about the Chu Kingdom and the Supreme Simplicity Sect, then sent his findings to Lin Ye with a Myriad-Mile Communication Talisman.
• Lin Ye received the intelligence and was rewarded with Bixie Swordsmanship, communication talismans, a Storage Ring, and spirit stones.
• Lin Ye altered Bixie Swordsmanship so only those born castrated could cultivate it, then sent Yang Yang to deliver it to Dongfang Bai.
• Yang Yang peeked at the manual, saw its cultivation restriction, and continued toward the Supreme Simplicity Sect.
• Yang Yang reached Supreme Simplicity City and messaged Dongfang Bai to come meet him.

Dongfang Bai received the Bixie Swordsmanship from Yang Yang and quickly mastered it, then joined his senior sisters to cultivate in the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s spiritual spring. The spring brought him to the peak of the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer, and his breakthrough also strengthened Lin Ye through their tenfold feedback.

• Dongfang Bai met Yang Yang in Supreme Simplicity City and received the Bixie Swordsmanship from him.
• Dongfang Bai gave gifts to his senior sisters, earning their goodwill, and Li Xuansu approved of him.
• Dongfang Bai rapidly cultivated the Bixie Swordsmanship to major mastery and began learning the Supreme Simplicity Sword Technique.
• Li Xuansu gave Dongfang Bai a place in the sect’s spiritual spring, where he cultivated with Xu Yan and other senior sisters.
• Dongfang Bai reached the peak of the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer, and his breakthrough caused Lin Ye’s cultivation to soar through tenfold feedback.

After reaching the Innate Realm Ninth Layer, Lin Ye let Han Bing visit his family, but Han Bing discovered they had abandoned him and went to confront the Hu Household. He defeated Hu Xu and demanded compensation for the abuse he had suffered, leaving the Hu Household to agree.

• Lin Ye broke through to the Innate Realm Ninth Layer and approved Han Bing's request to visit home.
• Han Bing learned that his family had sold their home and left Spirit Yang City long ago, then decided to take revenge on the Hu Household.
• Han Bing confronted Hu Miaomiao at the Hu Residence, threw her aside, and beat her without killing her.
• Han Bing defeated the Hu Household ancestor Hu Xu and demanded compensation for his treatment in the Hu Household.
• Hu Xu agreed to compensate Han Bing and stopped Hu Miaomiao from calling Han Bing her husband.