Chapter Summaries

After Cai Shiwei’s failed assassination attempt left High Person Purple Profound’s condition uncertain, Li Ye worried that the attack could destabilize the Purple Profound Sect and implicate him because of his past dealings with Cai. The Law Enforcement Hall summoned Li Ye, and he agreed to go with its disciples.

• Boy Xiangyang told Li Ye that Cai Shiwei had attacked High Person Purple Profound and escaped, leaving the sect’s grand array on alert.
• Li Ye concluded that Cai Shiwei’s rise in the sect had been part of a scheme and suspected that a powerful faction had supplied him with a means to injure the patriarch and escape.
• Li Ye worried that High Person Purple Profound had been seriously hurt and that Cai Shiwei’s backers might trigger turmoil in the Huan Kingdom.
• Boy Xiangyang reassured Li Ye that Elder Ji Qing knew about his past connection to Cai Shiwei and would protect him from unfair punishment.
• Three law enforcement disciples arrived, summoned Li Ye to the Law Enforcement Hall, and Li Ye agreed to go with them.

During the sect’s lockdown, Li Ye was brought to the Law Enforcement Hall and questioned about his connection to Cai Shiwei. After his account matched the evidence and Ji Qing vouched for him, he was released, leaving Li Zongyin to realize how far Li Ye had surpassed his expectations.

• Li Ye was escorted through the sealed Purple Profound Sect to the Law Enforcement Hall, where several disciples linked to Cai Shiwei were being held.
• Li Zongyin accused Li Ye of introducing him to Cai Shiwei and called him an accomplice, but the elder silenced him.
• The elder questioned Li Ye under a mind-piercing technique, and Li Ye explained his past dealings with Cai Shiwei and his refusal to join him again.
• Li Zongyin watched in despair as Li Ye’s account exposed how closely he had served Cai Shiwei, while Li Ye remained composed.
• The elder confirmed Li Ye had told the truth and that Ji Qing had vouched for him, then allowed him to leave.
• Li Zongyin wondered when Li Ye had gained such influence and capabilities.

Li Ye thanked Ji Qing for protecting him and returned to the spirit fields, while the Purple Profound Sect launched a broad campaign against Cai Shiwei and the forces behind the attack. The Li Household abandoned Li Zongyin and urged its members to support Li Ye, then faced the Zhang Household's demand to dissolve Zhang Jingjing's engagement to Li Zongyin.

• Li Ye thanked Ji Qing for guaranteeing his release, promised to stay within the sect, and headed back to tend the Spirit Plants.
• The Purple Profound Sect sent Foundation Establishment elders across the region and joined other powers in hunting Cai Shiwei.
• The Li Household's Ancestor refused to intervene for Li Zongyin and ordered the family to disown him, while telling them to support Li Ye.
• The Zhang Household's head arrived with Zhang Jingjing and asked the Li Household to end her engagement to Li Zongyin.

Li Ye used the rewards from harvesting Blood Li Rice to improve his talisman and Gu Technique skills, then prepared for the coming turmoil by cultivating Gu insects and making talismans. He successfully drew a second-tier Blazing Sun Fire Serpent Talisman, giving himself a powerful new defensive weapon.

• Li Ye harvested all four mu of Blood Li Rice and received experience and spiritual essence.
• Li Ye spent experience to raise Talismans to first-tier upper grade and Gu Technique to first-tier lower grade.
• Li Ye stayed in the sect, nurtured Gu insects, replenished his talisman supplies, and prepared higher-grade talisman paper.
• Li Ye used Blazing Sun Spirit Essence and beast-hide talisman paper to draw a Fire Serpent Talisman.
• Li Ye recognized that the completed Blazing Sun Fire Serpent Talisman had reached the second tier.

After Hu Zhiquan was killed while pursuing Cai Shiwei, Li Ye refused to leave the sect and sent talismans to aid Hu’s family. Cai Shiwei escaped another ambush, and the Flying Feather Sect invaded Huan Kingdom, plunging the region into war.

• Zhang Liangfu told Li Ye that Cai Shiwei had killed Hu Zhiquan and that the Purple Profound Sect was preparing to help Hu’s widow and children.
• Li Ye refused to leave the sect, urged Zhang Liangfu to stay as well, and gave him talismans to send to Hu’s family.
• The Purple Profound Sect and nearby forces found Cai Shiwei, but he broke through their encirclement and took more cultivators’ Essence Blood.
• Unfamiliar cultivators ambushed the pursuers, killing two Foundation Establishment elders of the Purple Profound Sect and inflicting heavy casualties on the allied forces.
• The Flying Feather Sect invaded Huan Kingdom and rapidly captured nearly half its territory before the Purple Profound Sect rallied its defenses.
• The Purple Profound Sect halted the initial advance and reclaimed some territory, but fighting over resource sites continued across the region.

Li Ye learned that the Purple Profound Sect had suffered defeats after the Qi Household and other local lineages betrayed it, and that he had been assigned to fight at the front. Before leaving, he harvested the mature Blood Li Rice and gained more Blood Li Spiritual Essence.

• Elder Ji Qing returned from the front grievously injured after the Qi Household attacked him and other lineages betrayed the Purple Profound Sect.
• Boy Xiangyang told Li Ye that the sect had suffered repeated defeats and lost another region to the enemy.
• Li Ye sought information from Old Man Luo, then learned the sect had assigned him and many lineage-backed disciples to fierce battle zones.
• With a few days before deployment, Li Ye returned to the back mountain and tended the Blood Li Rice.
• Li Ye harvested the mature Blood Li Rice and received Blood Li Spiritual Essence.

Li Ye harvested the Blood Li Rice before leaving for the battlefield, solidifying the Absorption trait and earning a huge supply of rice, experience, and Spiritual Essence. After saying farewell to Boy Xiangyang, he weighed how to spend his gains and planned to improve several skills while reserving experience for the dangers ahead.

• Li Ye asked Boy Xiangyang to preside over the Blood Li Rice harvest, and Boy Xiangyang returned with Elder Ji’s permission and a Storage Bag containing gifts and a token for the Foundation Establishment elder at the front lines.
• Li Ye harvested the Blood Li Rice and solidified the level-one Absorption trait, which gave plants he tended a chance to draw nutrients from a wider range of substances.
• Li Ye finished harvesting four mu of fields, producing nearly 2,400 jin of rice, and returned the formation token to Boy Xiangyang before leaving for his residence.
• Li Ye checked his panel and found he had gained 20,000 experience and 2,000 strands of Blood Li Spiritual Essence.
• Li Ye decided to save at least half his experience and considered improving his Planting, Pills, and Gu Technique skills before telling the panel to level him up.

Li Ye refined Qi and Blood Pills and used one to break through to the White Armor Level of Elephant Armor Force, then set out for the front lines wearing the Crimson Scale Armor. As his flying boat approached the dangerous Purple Path Forest, his gu insects sensed an approaching threat, and a sudden attack struck the vessel.

• Li Ye refined ten Qi and Blood Pills and swallowed a single-pattern pill to fuel his breakthrough.
• Li Ye advanced to the White Armor Level, gaining ivory-white skin that could harden for offense and defense.
• Li Ye equipped the Crimson Scale Armor gifted by Elder Ji before departing for the front lines.
• Li Ye traveled aboard a flying boat with Senior Brother Fei and other disciples assigned to the threatened Purple Path Forest.
• Li Ye's gu insects detected suspicious activity near the flying boat, and he prepared his talisman as blades suddenly tore into the vessel from below.

Li Ye fought off the cultivators who ambushed the Purple Profound Sect disciples, first killing a Middle-Stage Qi Refinement attacker before a Late-Stage cultivator struck him down. He lured the man close and killed him with an armored fist, while the battle between the surviving disciples and attackers continued.

• Unfamiliar cultivators ambushed the Purple Profound Sect flying boat, killing or injuring several disciples as they scattered to defend themselves.
• Li Ye killed the yellow-faced Middle-Stage Qi Refinement cultivator with his Blackwood Sword and talismans.
• A haggard Late-Stage attacker abandoned his fight with the Purple Profound Sect senior brother and attacked Li Ye with a spherical Law Artifact.
• The middle-aged cultivator repeatedly struck Li Ye and pursued him into the mountain forest, believing him helpless.
• Li Ye sprang up in ivory-white armor, dodged the sphere, and punched through the middle-aged cultivator's defenses, killing him.