Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into an injured cultivator, Li Ye chose a safe Spirit Rice farming task to avoid dangerous assignments and obtain resources for recovery. He began sowing his assigned fields, and a mysterious message appeared when he used a Law Technique to water the seedlings.

• Li Ye paid Senior Brother Luo to assign him the Spirit Plant farmer task, explaining that his injuries kept him from taking dangerous work.
• Li Ye traveled to the Spirit Fields and received five fen to tend from Xiao Qiang, who required him to turn over a hundred jin of rice to the sect.
• Li Ye began preparing the fields and sowing Jade Sprout Rice despite his injuries and rusty farming skills.
• Li Ye used the Spring Wind Transforming into Rain Technique to water the seedlings, and a message awarded him 0.1 experience for planting and keeping a first-grade Spirit Plant alive.

After discovering a panel that awarded experience for cultivating Spirit Plants, Li Ye replanted his fields with greater skill and resolved to focus on farming and improving his abilities. He refused Cai Shiwei’s invitation to join a dangerous task, while Cai’s group accepted it without him and Old Deacon Luo wondered why Li Ye had changed.

• Li Ye discovered that his hidden panel tracked his skills and experience, then spent three points to improve Planting.
• Li Ye replanted two fen of Jade Sprout Rice with more careful methods, gained far more experience, and planned to keep improving his skills through farming.
• Li Ye received a message from Junior Sister Tang inviting him to join Senior Brother Cai’s task, but he declined, citing his injuries.
• Li Ye recalled how Cai Shiwei and Tang Xiaohan had manipulated his predecessor into taking risks and resolved to avoid them and reclaim his losses if he could.
• Cai Shiwei’s group accepted the task without Li Ye after discussing a promising opportunity, while Old Deacon Luo wondered whether Li Ye had settled into farming or feared leaving the sect.

Li Ye advanced his Planting Technique and used his improved knowledge to raise the health of his Jade Sprout Rice, earning the respect of nearby spirit farmer disciples. While tending the field, he worried that his injuries and poor control of Law Power could leave hidden damage and hinder his cultivation, and considered buying spirit rice to help recover until he could afford a healing pill.

• Li Ye gained enough experience to advance his Planting Technique, deepening his understanding of spirit cultivation and refining his plan for the field.
• Li Ye carefully adjusted the field’s cultivation, and within days every Jade Sprout Rice seedling was thriving, making the task’s minimum harvest quota seem secure.
• Zhang Liangfu and the neighboring spirit farmer disciples praised Li Ye’s skill, and Li Ye credited his sudden improvement to lessons from his father to avoid suspicion.
• Li Ye realized his injuries and depleted vital Qi still impaired his Law Power and could cause hidden injuries or a decline in cultivation.
• Li Ye concluded he could not afford a healing pill before the harvest and planned to buy some spirit rice to nourish himself in the meantime.

Li Ye discovered that tending vigorous Jade Sprout Rice earned him Jade Sprout Spiritual Essence, which he absorbed to refine his Law Power. He began considering whether the essence could also serve as a pure ingredient for pills and other cultivation arts.

• Li Ye killed an Earth-Born Snake in his spirit field and discussed the poor earnings of spirit-farming with Zhang Liangfu.
• Li Ye reflected that spirit rice had improved his health and control of his Law Power, while leaving him nearly out of Spirit Stones.
• Li Ye tended a vigorous Jade Sprout Rice plant and received a notification that he had gained Jade Sprout Spiritual Essence.
• After tending the fields, Li Ye accumulated one strand of Jade Sprout Spiritual Essence, absorbed it, and found that it refined his Law Power with little effort.
• Li Ye considered using Plant Spiritual Essence as a pill ingredient or in other cultivation arts.

After Jade Sprout Spiritual Essence helped Li Ye recover his cultivation, he sought a way to tend more Spirit Plants and learned that successful spirit farmers could qualify for the sect’s spirit medicine garden. As Li Ye and Zhang Liangfu pledged to support each other, three cultivators arrived and confronted them in the fields.

• Li Ye asked Zhang Liangfu how disciples could obtain more spirit fields or tend precious Spirit Plants, explaining that five mu no longer satisfied him.
• Zhang Liangfu explained that spirit farming missions selected disciples for a test, and those who passed could work in the spirit medicine garden for training and contribution rewards.
• Li Ye decided to earn a place in the garden, and Zhang Liangfu praised his talent and said he might have a chance as well.
• Li Ye and Zhang Liangfu promised to support each other in the sect.
• Three cultivators arrived on flying Law Artifacts, and two pressured Zhang Liangfu with their Law Power before Li Ye calmly asked the woman what they wanted.

Li Ye rejected Tang Xiaohan and the other cultivators’ invitation, refusing to leave his spirit field or risk being used as a tool. After refining Jade Sprout Spiritual Essence, he gained complete control over his Law Power and prepared to refine his predecessor’s Law Artifact.

• Tang Xiaohan and the sharp-mouthed cultivator questioned Li Ye, but he brushed them off and said he was busy tending his spirit field.
• Tang Xiaohan invited Li Ye to join the group, but he refused, citing his injuries and his decision to stay in the sect.
• The fat and thin cultivators mocked Li Ye and left with Tang Xiaohan after he rejected them.
• Zhang Liangfu praised Li Ye for refusing Tang Xiaohan, and Li Ye returned to tending his seedlings.
• Li Ye refined a strand of Jade Sprout Spiritual Essence, purified his Law Power, and prepared to refine the Law Artifact left by his predecessor.

Li Ye examined and began refining his damaged Blackwood Sword while keeping to the sect as he recovered and saved money. Rumors mocked his retreat, but he ignored them and turned his fellow spirit-farmers’ attention to improving their Spirit Plant cultivation.

• Li Ye found that the damaged Blackwood Sword had become unreliable, then put it away and began refining it while planning to recover his Qi Refining cultivation.
• Li Ye stayed within the sect, avoiding the market because of his injuries, limited funds, weakened sword, and suspicions about the Bandit Cultivators’ attack.
• Low-level disciples spread rumors that Li Ye had become a coward and that his cultivation might never recover.
• Zhang Liangfu and the other spirit-farmers angrily blamed the three visitors for the slander, but Li Ye dismissed the gossip and redirected them to discussing Spirit Plant cultivation.
• Senior Brother Hu Zhiquan took encouragement from Zhang Liangfu’s words about his wife and unborn son, then joined the discussion of their craft.

Li Ye heard that Cai Shiwei’s expedition had been nearly wiped out by Devil Cultivators, but Cai Shiwei awakened a Spirit Body and escaped with Tang Xiaohan. Li Ye left the Internal Affairs Hall determined to keep his distance, while Steward Luo reconsidered his judgment of Li Ye and decided to stay inside the sect and cultivate his acquaintance with him.

• Steward Luo teased Li Ye for visiting the Internal Affairs Hall and advised him to focus on tending his spirit fields instead of seeking tasks or opportunities.
• News spread that Cai Shiwei’s party had been attacked by Devil Cultivators; Cai Shiwei awakened a Spirit Body and escaped with Tang Xiaohan, who remained unconscious.
• Li Ye wondered whether Cai Shiwei’s repeated good fortune and the attacks were connected, but decided to avoid Cai Shiwei and keep his head down.
• Li Ye slipped away from the noisy hall, while Steward Luo reflected on the rising danger from Bandit Cultivators and Devil Cultivators.
• Steward Luo decided not to leave the sect gates and resolved to get on good terms with Li Ye.

After Cai Shiwei became a celebrated disciple for awakening a Blood Soul Spirit Body, Li Ye’s fellow spirit farmers worried that Cai might retaliate against him for refusing his invitation. Li Ye warned them not to mistake his caution for weakness and revealed that his cultivation had recovered.

• Cai Shiwei’s account of the Devil Cultivators was confirmed, and a Foundation Establishment Late Stage elder took him as a disciple.
• Zhang Liangfu celebrated the deaths of the cultivators who had mocked Li Ye, but Li Ye and Hu Zhiquan warned him to be careful because Cai Shiwei was still alive.
• Zhang Liangfu worried Cai might target Li Ye for repeatedly refusing his invitations, while Hu Zhiquan distanced himself from the possible conflict.
• Li Ye said he would not tolerate anyone driving him into a corner and cut a skink in two with a streak of Sword Qi.
• Zhang Liangfu realized Li Ye’s cultivation had recovered to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.

Li Ye attended a banquet at Old Luo’s residence, accepted his apology for helping spread rumors, and learned that tending spirit fields at a Foundation Establishment elder’s cave abode could offer better cultivation prospects than the sect’s Spirit Plant garden. Old Luo revealed that he had an elder in mind and began explaining the opportunity.

• Li Ye and Old Luo drank together, and Old Luo apologized for spreading stories that had damaged Li Ye’s reputation.
• Li Ye forgave Old Luo, while Old Luo explained that Li Ye’s recent actions had discouraged others from provoking him.
• Old Luo told Li Ye that tending spirit fields at a Foundation Establishment elder’s cave abode could provide stronger Spiritual Qi and chances for guidance or rewards.
• Li Ye questioned how a low-rank disciple could get such a post when elders could choose their own disciples or exchange favors.
• Old Luo said a reclusive elder had an opening and began telling Li Ye more about the opportunity.

Li Ye focused on improving his Spirit Plant skills so he could compete to manage Elder Ji Qing’s spirit fields, while the Purple Profound Sect crushed resistance during its sweep for Devil Cultivators. His routine ended when an uninvited guest arrived, whom Li Ye identified as his Third Uncle.

• Li Ye weighed spending his accumulated experience on planting skills to improve his chances of obtaining a plot at Elder Ji Qing’s cave abode.
• Li Ye reduced his socializing and practiced planting with Zhang Liangfu, Hu Zhiquan, and other spirit farmers.
• The Purple Profound Sect destroyed a Foundation Establishment Lineage that secretly failed to cooperate with its campaign.
• The sect’s sweep eliminated the Devil Cultivators across Huan Kingdom, and Cai Shiwei won praise for killing several Late-Stage Qi Refinement Devil Cultivators.
• A weathered, shrewd-looking man arrived to interrupt Li Ye’s routine, and Li Ye asked his Third Uncle whether this was the important matter he had mentioned.

Li Ye confronted his Third Uncle after the Li Lineage asked him to surrender resources and cultivation opportunities to help Li Zongyin advance. He refused to support their effort to connect with Cai Shiwei unless the Lineage handed over its first-tier cultivation-art inheritances, and his Third Uncle left to consult the family.

• Li Ye challenged his Third Uncle's claim that helping Li Zongyin was an important matter for the Lineage.
• Li Ye accused the Lineage of taking his family's property and leaving him with nothing after his father's death.
• Third Uncle restrained his anger because Li Ye was a Purple Profound Sect disciple and the meeting took place in a sect-operated restaurant.
• Third Uncle asked what Li Ye wanted in exchange for supporting Li Zongyin, and Li Ye recognized that he wanted access to Cai Shiwei.
• Li Ye demanded the Lineage's first-tier inheritances in talismans, pills, artifact refining, formations, and other cultivation arts.
• Third Uncle said he would discuss the demand with the Lineage and left, while Li Ye finished his drink and departed.

Li Ye decided to sell the spirit field claimed by his branch to the Lineage’s other branches so he could fund his cultivation plans. After buying talismans and spending his last Spirit Stones, he sent word of the sale, prompting the Li Household to reconsider his demands for the cultivation inheritances.

• Li Ye reasoned that selling his small spirit field to the Lineage’s branches would bring in Spirit Stones and settle their claim to the land.
• Li Ye searched the street stalls for valuable plants but found only overpriced wares and counterfeits.
• Li Ye bought two Golden Bell Talismans and one Cold Breath Talisman, using up his remaining Spirit Stones.
• At the Li Household, Fourth criticized Li Ye for demanding the Lineage’s inheritances, while the branch head proposed agreeing to part of his request with conditions.
• A steward reported that Li Ye had sent every branch a letter offering to sell the spirit field under his name, and the old man remarked that Shusen had anticipated his motive.

Li Ye secured two hundred low-grade Spirit Stones for his family’s spirit fields and negotiated for three cultivation inheritances from Third Uncle. After swearing not to pass them on, he left carefully and returned safely to the Purple Profound Sect.

• Li Ye read his father’s contract and learned that the clan would compensate him with two hundred low-grade Spirit Stones for the spirit fields while preserving his right to farm them if he returned.
• Li Ye signed the contract, took the Spirit Stones, and challenged Third Uncle over the inheritances he would receive.
• Li Ye negotiated for the first-tier talisman, pill, and artifact refining inheritances, and Third Uncle handed over three Jade Slips.
• Li Ye checked the Jade Slips, swore not to pass on their contents, and promised to introduce Li Zongyin to Cai Shiwei after the sect’s disciple recruitment ceremony.
• Li Ye evaded anyone following him through the market and mountain forest, changed clothes, and returned safely to his residence at the Purple Profound Sect.

Li Ye received two hundred Spirit Stones and three cultivation inheritances from Third Uncle, then began studying pill refinement and discovered how slowly he progressed. The next day, Hu Zhiquan slipped Li Ye a technique booklet, leaving him stunned by its contents.

• Li Ye counted the two hundred Spirit Stones and decided to reserve fifty for immediate use while hiding the other hundred and fifty in his underground basement.
• Li Ye chose the incomplete pill refinement inheritance and studied it through the night, gaining only three experience points toward initiation.
• Zhang Liangfu noticed Li Ye's tired appearance and teased him, but Li Ye explained that he had been absorbed in his studies.
• Li Ye concluded that direct research in pill refinement would take too much time and resources, and planned to examine the artifact refinement inheritance next.
• Hu Zhiquan slipped a technique booklet into Li Ye's robes as a repayment, and Li Ye froze when he saw its cover.

Li Ye studied a risqué cultivation booklet from Senior Brother Hu, reconsidered Cai Shiwei’s motives, and struggled with incomplete pill and artifact-refinement inheritances before focusing on talisman drawing. As an alert talisman interrupted his practice, he realized the sect’s disciple recruitment ceremony had arrived.

• Li Ye accepted Senior Brother Hu’s booklet and decided that, though he would not blame him, he would keep the loss of trust in mind.
• Li Ye suspected Cai Shiwei was using him to build his reputation, but chose not to break their apparent connection without evidence.
• Li Ye planned to let Li Zongyin attract outside attention by bringing the Li Household’s disciples to Cai Shiwei.
• Li Ye made little progress studying pills and artifact refinement, realizing their incomplete inheritances were full of gaps and errors.
• Li Ye practiced talisman drawing until an alert talisman interrupted him, and he realized it was time for the sect’s disciple recruitment ceremony.

Li Ye met his newly recruited kinsman Li Zongyin and offered to take him to visit Senior Brother Cai, despite Li Zongyin’s fiancée Zhang Jingjing’s contemptuous accusations. Li Ye and Li Zongyin set off together, leaving Zhang Jingjing behind.

• Li Zongyin greeted Li Ye as a fellow disciple, while Li Ye was pleased that the newcomer’s prominence might draw attention away from him.
• Zhang Jingjing arrived and accused Li Ye of being mediocre and trying to swindle Li Zongyin.
• Li Ye dismissed Zhang Jingjing’s insults and offered to take Li Zongyin to Senior Brother Cai’s residence immediately.
• Li Zongyin left with Li Ye on his fire crow, promising Zhang Jingjing they would explore the sect grounds another day.
• Zhang Jingjing watched them leave, resented Li Zongyin’s departure, and stormed off.

Li Ye helped Li Zongyin make an alliance with Cai Shiwei while keeping his distance from Cai's invitation. After his injuries healed and his Qi and Blood improved, Li Ye assessed the three hurdles to Foundation Establishment and realized he needed to strengthen his body and prepare well in advance.

• At a banquet, Cai Shiwei spoke of supporting fellow cultivators, and Li Ye privately suspected he used his companions to build his reputation.
• Li Zongyin pledged himself to Cai Shiwei, but Li Ye declined Cai's invitation to join them.
• After Cai Shiwei left, Li Zongyin apologized to Li Ye, who said their debts were settled.
• Li Ye refined Jade Sprout Spiritual Essence and the banquet's food and wine, healing his injuries completely and improving his Law Power.
• Li Ye practiced his body-strengthening fist technique and considered the essence, Qi, and spirit requirements for Foundation Establishment, concluding that his Qi and Blood and physique still needed work.

During the harvest, Li Ye gained a level-one Vitality enhancement to his Planting skill by harvesting Jade Sprout Rice, improving his chances of growing vigorous spirit plants. After gathering and weighing nothing yet, he was approached by Xiao Qiang, who called him to present his harvest.

• Xiao Qiang praised Li Ye to his master for sharing Spirit Plant Techniques and helping other disciples improve their yields.
• Li Ye harvested his mature Jade Sprout Rice and gained a level-one Vitality enhancement to his Planting skill.
• Li Ye threshed his rice, collected stray grains, and stored the stalks and husks to use as alchemy fuel.
• Zhang Liangfu praised Li Ye for cleaning his field thoroughly.
• Xiao Qiang approached Li Ye with a ledger and steelyard and asked him to present his spirit rice for weighing.

Li Ye’s spirit rice harvest reached 287 jin, earning praise from Xiao Qiang and gratitude from the disciples he had taught. After accepting their gifts, Li Ye passed an assessment and received a wooden token allowing him to take planting tasks in the spirit medicine garden.

• Xiao Qiang weighed Li Ye’s harvest at 287 jin and let him keep everything beyond the 100 jin required for the task.
• Li Ye chose to keep his rice for his own use, and Xiao Qiang privately told him to visit the main hall afterward.
• Zhang Liangfu thanked Li Ye for his guidance, gave him spirit rice, and said he had earned a chance to take the assessment.
• Hu Zhiquan and other disciples gave Li Ye rice in gratitude for his help with their fields.
• The Foundation Establishment elder and Xiao Qiang observed the disciples’ respect for Li Ye, and Xiao Qiang thought Li Ye might be better suited to oversee the spirit fields if his cultivation were higher.
• Xiao Qiang gave Li Ye a wooden token after asking about spirit medicine cultivation, allowing him to take planting tasks in the spirit medicine garden.