Recaps

Luo Chen traveled with Tao Yisheng toward Azure Pill Valley and learned about the Dao Seed Competition, the sect’s territory, and Tao Family affairs. At Little South Mountain, he discovered that the Tao Family elders were disputing whether to accept him as Tao Wan’s Pill Refiner candidate because of his demands and their doubts about his abilities.

• Tao Yisheng explained that Azure Pill Valley’s Dao Seed Competition was open to qualified disciples under one hundred and fifty, and that Danyangzi could compete only without outside help.
• Tao Yisheng described Azure Pill Valley’s respect for skilled alchemists and pointed out its Lower Court, territory, and Yuanhua Mountain to Luo Chen.
• Tao Yisheng brought Luo Chen to Little South Mountain and introduced him to three Tao Family juniors as Pill Dust Master, an Alchemy Grandmaster, and a future guest elder.
• Tao Yisheng learned that the Tao Family elders had been arguing over Luo Chen’s role as Tao Wan’s Pill Refiner candidate.
• Luo Chen overheard that the elders doubted his alchemy and resisted his costly demands for the Tao Family’s inherited pill recipes and Core Formation Insights.

Luo Chen settled into the Tao Family estate and studied the Esteemed Fox Pill Explanation while Tao Wan moved to replace the family head with her brother, Tao Yisheng. The clan’s succession contest began as a pill-refining duel, leaving Luo Chen closely observing the Colorful Chrysanthemum Pill he hoped to learn.

• Luo Chen examined the Esteemed Fox Pill Explanation in his private courtyard and reflected on its unusual alchemy methods.
• Tao Wan explained that the Tao Family feared backing her in the Dao Seed Competition, and she proposed making Tao Yisheng the new family head.
• Tao Wan brought Luo Chen to the assembly, where Tao Yisheng challenged Tao Daonan’s authority and the clan agreed to settle the succession dispute through pill refining.
• Tao Daonan chose the Tao Family’s Tier 2 Colorful Chrysanthemum Pill for the contest, believing neither Tao Yisheng nor Tao Yichen could successfully refine it.
• Tao Yisheng and Tao Yichen began refining the pill, while Tao Wan told Luo Chen that the formula was the one she intended to give him.

Tao Wan forced the Tao Family to continue its pill-refining contest to decide the family head, while Luo Chen quietly judged the contestants’ chances. Tao Yisheng eventually refined a Second-Order Low-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Pill and won the position, while Tao Daonan’s defeat by Tao Wan stripped him of authority.

• Luo Chen predicted that Tao Yichen and Tao Yisheng would both fail their first attempts, and both produced defective pills.
• Tao Daonan argued that both failures were equal and named Tao Yichen as his choice for family head, but Tao Wan demanded that the contest continue until someone succeeded.
• Tao Wan used the contest to assess Luo Chen’s alchemical judgment and continued the trials over two days as Tao Yisheng and Tao Yichen repeatedly failed.
• When Tao Daonan tried to stop the contest, Tao Wan overpowered him in a direct clash of spiritual power and declared that the Tao Family needed new leadership.
• Tao Yisheng refined three Second-Order Low-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Pills, and Tao Wan announced him as the new family head.
• Tao Daonan agreed to convene a family assembly the next day and left, wondering whether he had truly grown old.

After becoming an honored guest of the Tao Family, Luo Chen received the pills, recipe, and Core Formation insights Tao Wan had promised him. Tao Wan brought him to Azure Pill Valley’s competition grounds, where he learned about the sect’s vast spirit lands and its Azure Sky Glass Cauldrons, then confidently prepared to compete alone.

• Tao Yisheng became the Tao Family head and formally named Luo Chen an honored guest of the family.
• Luo Chen returned to Ink Lotus Courtyard and received a Rising Dragon Pill, an Ice Phoenix Pellet, Colorful Chrysanthemum Pills, their recipe, and a copy of Nanshan Old Man’s Core Formation Insights.
• Luo Chen began studying the Colorful Chrysanthemum Pill recipe as Azure Pill Valley’s Dao Seed Competition drew near.
• Tao Wan took Luo Chen to the competition venue and showed him Azure Pill Valley’s five spirit mountains, the valley’s nine arenas, and the Glass Sub-Cauldron he would use.
• After Chu Huai prepared the Earthfire and explained the Azure Sky Glass Cauldron, Luo Chen declined help from Tao Wan and her alchemists, saying he would be enough on his own.

Luo Chen learned the rules for Azure Pill Valley’s Dao Seed Competition and clashed with Shangguan Yan and Huang Hezi after Tao Wan defended him. Back at the Tao Family, he studied the Colorful Chrysanthemum Pill Recipe, and Tao Yisheng arrived with high-grade pills for him to examine.

• Luo Chen tested the Glass Sub-Cauldron, registered as Pill Dust Master, and learned that the Pill Refining contests would use newly developed recipes.
• Shangguan Yan mocked Tao Wan for inviting Luo Chen instead of Huang Hezi, and Tao Wan insulted Huang Hezi before leaving with Luo Chen.
• Shangguan Yan reassured Huang Hezi and took him to sign a contract, while the gathered disciples debated the Dao Seed contenders.
• Luo Chen asked Tao Wan for high-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Pills, and she promised to search the Tao Family treasury.
• Luo Chen stayed at the Tao Family’s Ink Lotus Garden to study the pill recipe, and Tao Yisheng brought him high-grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Pills.

Luo Chen advised Tao Yisheng on managing the Tao Family and tested the medicinal power of the Colorful Chrysanthemum Pills, finding that they could not economically match the Rising Dragon Pill he needed. He went to Azure Pill Market hoping to find another way to support his cultivation.

• Luo Chen examined the Colorful Chrysanthemum Pills Tao Yisheng brought and learned Tao Wan had agreed to a marriage alliance with the Fu Family tied to the Dao Seed Competition.
• Tao Yisheng asked Luo Chen for guidance, and Luo Chen spent the afternoon advising him on using alliances, resources, and other factions to manage family affairs.
• Luo Chen swallowed a Mid-Grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Pill and resolved to pursue faster cultivation rather than settle for ordinary progress.
• After testing every grade, Luo Chen found that even a Top-Grade Colorful Chrysanthemum Pill only slightly surpassed a Mid-Grade Rising Dragon Pill and would be too costly to produce as his main cultivation pill.
• Luo Chen left Ink Lotus Garden and rode to Azure Pill Market, hoping the gathering ahead of the Dao Seed Competition would offer other opportunities.

Luo Chen attended High Sun Tower in Azure Pill Market, bought a Rebirth Pill and resources for the Luo Tian Association, and met Chu Kui again. After learning that Chu Kui knew Tao Wan, Luo Chen asked whether she could win Azure Pill Valley’s Dao Seed position.

• Luo Chen visited High Sun Tower and bought Liao Liang’s thousand-year-old Rebirth Pill for thirty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Luo Chen purchased Foundation Establishment resources for the Luo Tian Association and listed Wei Tuo’s Nine Ring Tin Staff for exchange for a Water Attribute Magic Treasure.
• Luo Chen met Chu Kui and He Yuanqing, and He Yuanqing asked someone to investigate Luo Chen’s background and who had invited him to Azure Pill Valley.
• Luo Chen and Chu Kui left the tower together, and Chu Kui revealed that he temporarily served as a retainer for several Cultivation Families.
• Luo Chen showed Chu Kui the token from the South Mountain Tao Family, and Chu Kui recognized that Tao Wan had invited him.
• Luo Chen asked Chu Kui to assess Tao Wan’s combat strength and her chance of becoming Azure Pill Valley’s Dao Seed.

Luo Chen learned how Tao Wan’s Flowing Cloud Flying Sleeves made her one of Azure Pill Valley’s strongest young cultivators, while He Yuanqing dismissed Luo Chen as an unthreatening alchemist. After a month of cultivation at Little South Mountain, Tao Wan arrived to tell Luo Chen that the Dao Seed Competition had begun.

• Chu Kui explained that Tao Wan had refined her Flowing Cloud Flying Sleeves to wield most of its power and ranked her among Azure Pill Valley’s top young cultivators.
• He Yuanqing summoned Xuan Yunzi He Yun and learned that Luo Chen could reliably refine high-grade Jade Marrow Pills, then concluded that Luo Chen posed no threat in the Alchemy Competition.
• Luo Chen returned to Ink Lotus Garden, examined the Rebirth Pill, and confirmed that it retained enough Medicinal Power to serve as a lifesaving trump card.
• After a month at Little South Mountain, Luo Chen found his cultivation had advanced only one point and resolved to return to a High-Grade Cave Mansion soon.
• Tao Wan told Luo Chen that the Dao Seed Competition had begun.

Luo Chen traveled with Tao Wan’s group to Azure Pill Valley’s Dao Seed Competition, where he received two new pill recipes to study before the second round. As Tao Wan began defending an arena, Luo Chen left to prepare for pill refinement while a challenger confronted her group.

• Luo Chen and Tao Yisheng arrived at Pill Valley with Tao Wan’s group as the Dao Seed Competition began and Golden Core Immortals and visitors gathered to watch.
• Tao Yisheng identified White Prime Immortal as Tao Wan’s master, and Luo Chen met her and Ice Fortress’s Heartless Immortal at Sky Palace.
• Luo Chen collected two pill recipes and medicinal herbs from a Grand Pill Institute elder, while Xuan Yunzi explained that Danyangzi’s strength would be limited without his Purple Zenith Skyfire.
• Luo Chen returned to the arenas and found Tao Wan’s group holding a platform; he headed off to study the recipes as a young cultivator and three Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivators challenged her position.
• Tao Wan sent Qi Lingyun to the arena to face the first challenger.

Luo Chen studied the Dustfall Pill and Spirit Feeding Pill recipes, refined a batch of Spirit Feeding Pills, and prepared for the second round of the Pill Refining competition. As the arena battles continued, Chu Kui of the He Family challenged Danyangzi.

• Luo Chen examined the Dustfall Pill recipe, considered how it might accelerate cultivation at the cost of bodily strength, and learned the Spirit Feeding Pill recipe through the system.
• Tao Wan and her allies discussed their arena results and planned for the other True Disciples and allied families to wear Danyangzi down before the final competition.
• Luo Chen discovered that Spirit Feeding Pills were inexpensive food for spirit beasts and began refining them with the ingredients and equipment supplied by the Grand Pill Institute.
• After five days of experimenting, Luo Chen successfully produced thirty Spirit Feeding Pills, then slept to recover from his work.
• Luo Chen emerged from seclusion and joined Tao Yisheng at the arena, where Chu Kui of the He Family challenged Danyangzi.

Chu Kui fought Danyangzi to a hundred-exchange draw before conceding, revealing enough strength to alarm Azure Pill Valley’s disciples and draw He Yuanqing into negotiating for a more dangerous effort. After watching several matches, Luo Chen judged the sect’s cultivators’ combat skills and returned to prepare for his own turn in the competition, which was expected within two days.

• Chu Kui challenged Danyangzi and fought him evenly for a hundred exchanges before conceding, while Golden Core elders debated the growing power of Magic Treasures and Sky Sail City’s influence.
• He Yuanqing reproached Chu Kui for conceding while holding back, and Chu Kui demanded extra payment to risk himself against the other Great True Disciples.
• Tao Wan and her companions discussed their tournament strategy, with Tao Daonan reassuring them that the He Family was focused on challenging Danyangzi for first place.
• Luo Chen watched later matches and concluded that Azure Pill Valley’s cultivators relied too heavily on Magic Treasures, while recognizing that Chu Kui practiced both spell cultivation and body tempering.
• Luo Chen left the competition to refine pills before his own turn, while Tao Wan praised his sincere focus on alchemy.

Luo Chen entered the second round’s fundamental alchemy techniques contest, where contestants had to process five ingredients to a set standard. While the others began work, he studied how to handle the difficult Returning Origin Cicada Shell and left the crowd stunned by tossing it directly into his Glass Sub-Cauldron.

• Tao Wan and Luo Chen reviewed the arena battle rankings, where Tao Wan had placed fourth after defeating Du Changfeng.
• The Grand Pill Institute elder began the alchemy contest and warned Huang Hezi against sending messages through Spiritual Sense.
• Luo Chen studied the five ingredients and realized that the contest required contestants to combine their knowledge of medicinal properties to process the Returning Origin Cicada Shell.
• Danyangzi and the other Pill Refiners began processing ingredients while Luo Chen continued to consider his approach.
• Tao Yisheng defended Luo Chen when Tao Family cultivators questioned his delay, and Tao Wan tried to trust that he had a plan.
• Luo Chen tossed the Returning Origin Cicada Shell into his Glass Sub-Cauldron, shocking the crowd and surprising the Grand Pill Institute elder.

Luo Chen used a risky method to process the Returning Origin Cicada Shell and revealed mastery of several alchemical techniques, astonishing the spectators. After he produced a perfect shell in half an hour, the Tao Family decided to support him during the next stage of the competition.

• Luo Chen extracted smoke from Blue Smoke Jade with his Jade Folding Hand, impressing Tao Yichen and the gathered cultivators.
• Luo Chen processed the Crimson Flame Ganoderma and Azure Aloe while roasting the shell, making it appear burned and drawing dismissive reactions from Huang Hezi.
• Xuan Yunzi recognized his mistake, cleared his ingredients, and restarted; a Grand Pill Institute elder praised his decisiveness and considered inviting him to study there.
• Luo Chen used the Azure Star Grass's poison to remove the shell's blackened impurities, restoring it to a clear, translucent state with its Primordial Qi intact.
• The Grand Pill Institute elder declared Luo Chen's Returning Origin Cicada Shell a perfect product and named him the first to finish processing it in half an hour.
• Tao Wan told Tao Yisheng to bring Luo Chen the Tao Family's Leisurely Fragrance, and Tao Yisheng left with two Foundation Establishment Cultivators to retrieve it.

Luo Chen won the first round of the Alchemy Competition by perfectly processing all five materials, then began the second round with a commanding lead. As he refined Spirit Feeding Pills without assistants, Huang Hezi lost focus and ruined his batch.

• Luo Chen processed all five materials perfectly and was named first place in the pill technique contest, while Danyangzi finished second and Xuan Yunzi was expected to place third.
• Luo Chen rested with Tao Wan’s Leisurely Fragrance and reviewed the recipes for the next pill-refining contests.
• The second round began, and Luo Chen and Danyangzi worked without helpers while most other contestants had assistants.
• Luo Chen processed materials as he refined, using his practiced fire control to pull ahead of Danyangzi.
• Huang Hezi smelled Luo Chen’s pill fragrance, became distracted, and failed to control the Core Condensation, ruining his batch.

Luo Chen won the first two alchemy matches for the Tao Family and then refined a Tier 2 Dustfall Pill successfully on his first attempt, cementing his reputation. The Grand Pill Institute elder invited him to join Azure Pill Valley, while the other competitors’ results remained undecided.

• Tao Wan urged Luo Chen to hold back in the third match, but he persuaded her that a higher ranking would strengthen her position in the Dao Seed Competition.
• Shangguan Yan reproached Huang Hezi for his poor results, while He Yuanqing encouraged Xuan Yunzi to place higher in the final match.
• The third match began with the competitors preparing to refine the Tier 2 Dustfall Pill, and Luo Chen recognized that fatigue made the challenge especially difficult for Danyangzi.
• Luo Chen processed the ingredients and refined a low-grade Dustfall Pill in a single attempt, earning a qualified result.
• The Grand Pill Institute elder praised Luo Chen’s skill and asked whether he would join Azure Pill Valley’s Grand Pill Institute.

Luo Chen declined to join the Grand Pill Institute as Danyangzi finally refined a Dustfall Pill and Tao Wan rose to first place in the rankings. As the True Disciple Sword Competition began, Luo Chen was summoned to the Sky Palace by an Immortal.

• Luo Chen decided not to enter the Grand Pill Institute because he wanted to keep his freedom and oversee the Luo Tian Association.
• Fu Huai, Xuan Yunzi, Huang Hezi, and Master Lingzhi refined Dustfall Pills before Danyangzi finally succeeded after Red Cauldron Immortal challenged his choices.
• Pill Dust Master took first place overall in the second round, while Fu Huai placed second and Tao Wan's platform rose to first among the Great True Disciples.
• Shangguan Yan approached Luo Chen to discuss Alchemy Dao, but Tao Wan intervened and drove her away.
• As the Sword Competition Platform was prepared, a disciple told Luo Chen that an Immortal in the Heavenly Palace wanted to see him.

Luo Chen attended the Heavenly Palace as Pill Dust Master and drew competing recruitment offers from several sects before Heartless Immortal revealed his connection to Ice Fortress and gave him a new Profound Ice Talisman. He watched the True Disciple Sword Competition, where Du Changfeng lost after his spiritual energy faltered, and the chapter ended as Fu Li faced He Yuanqing.

• Luo Chen received respectful treatment from the Golden Core Immortals, and Red Cauldron Immortal, Ailao Mountain Immortal, and Fragrance Master of Hundred Flowers Palace offered him enticing terms to join their sects.
• Heartless Immortal declared that Luo Chen belonged to Ice Fortress, and Luo Chen showed the Esteemed Fox Pill Explanation that linked him to Shang Hu.
• Heartless Immortal took back the Profound Ice Talisman made for Tantai Jin and gave Luo Chen a new one containing her protective power.
• Luo Chen watched the True Disciple Sword Competition from the Heavenly Palace and heard the Golden Core Immortals criticize Foundation Establishment disciples for relying too heavily on Magic Treasures.
• Du Changfeng gained the advantage over Shangguan Yan but lost when his spiritual energy faltered and Shangguan Yan seized the opening.
• Fu Li's match against He Yuanqing began as Luo Chen watched to see whether Fu Li would help Tao Wan.

Fu Li defeated He Yuanqing through careful strategy, then challenged Danyangzi for the Dao Seed position despite their alliance with Tao Wan. Danyangzi overcame Fu Li’s Dragon Binding Stake with Purple Zenith Skyfire, leaving his undefeated record intact.

• Fu Li used Spirit Binding Pearls and a carefully timed sword attack to disrupt He Yuanqing’s killing move, win the match, and advance.
• Golden Core Immortals explained that Fu Li had exploited He Yuanqing’s eagerness to conserve strength, while Tao Wan realized Fu Li also wanted the Dao Seed position for himself.
• After an hour of recovery, Fu Li faced Danyangzi, who was low on spiritual power and fought with a Top-Grade Magic Tool rather than his usual Flying Sword Magic Treasure.
• After a hundred rounds, Fu Li deployed the Dragon Binding Stake, but Danyangzi sent Purple Zenith Skyfire along its chains and defeated him.
• The disciples celebrated Danyangzi’s victory as Luo Chen continued thinking about the Purple Zenith Skyfire.

Danyangzi and Tao Wan fought for the Azure Pill Valley Dao Seed position, while Luo Chen watched and realized how weapon-based spellcasting could improve his own combat methods. Tao Wan overcame Danyangzi’s Purple Zenith Skyfire and won, becoming the new Dao Seed.

• Qingyunzi explained that Danyangzi had obtained the Purple Zenith Skyfire himself and that the fire remained too weak to be useful in ordinary combat.
• Luo Chen inferred that several Azure Pill Valley peaks were competing to recruit Danyangzi, who had accepted harsh restrictions to continue pursuing the Dao Seed position.
• Danyangzi and Tao Wan began their final battle, exchanging attacks as Tao Wan used her Flowing Cloud Flying Sleeves and Swanflight Art to evade his sword strikes.
• Danyangzi used the Blazing Sun Spell through his sword and injured Tao Wan, then baited her into approaching while he prepared a lethal strike.
• Tao Wan froze Danyangzi’s Purple Zenith Skyfire with the Ice Fortress’s Ice Soul Cold Marrow, then stopped him with a finger strike between his brows.
• The Dragon Head Peak elder declared Tao Wan the winner and promoted her to Azure Pill Valley Dao Seed.

After Tao Wan won Azure Pill Valley’s Dao Seed Competition, Luo Chen stayed at Ink Lotus Garden while she recovered and prepared for her ceremony. He studied Nanshan Old Man’s Core Formation insights, recognized that his Dragon Phoenix Tribulation Secret Technique followed the Lower Method, and resumed cultivation as his realm began to rise.

• Shi Lan revealed that she had profited by running a betting pool against Luo Chen, and Luo Chen gave her a bottle of Mid-Grade Jade Dew Pills.
• Heartless Immortal invited Luo Chen to Sky Wave Peak, but he said he would wait until Tao Wan’s Dao Seed ceremony concluded.
• Tao Wan thanked Luo Chen for helping her win and said he could receive High-Grade Rising Dragon Pills after she became the Azure Pill Dao Child.
• Tao Yisheng delivered Luo Chen’s purchased resources, but Luo Chen returned the Spirit Stones Tao Yisheng had paid for them.
• Tao Wan and Tao Yisheng agreed to maintain their relationship with Luo Chen, believing there were other ways to win his goodwill.
• Luo Chen studied Nanshan Old Man’s Core Formation insights, identified his secret technique as Lower Method Core Formation, and resumed cultivating until his stalled realm began to rise.

Luo Chen received the Magic Treasure Autumn Water and attended Tao Wan’s Dao Seed Ceremony, where she became Azure Pill Valley’s Dao Child. Tao Wan showed him the sect’s ranks and invited him to stay in her exceptionally rich cultivation grounds, and he began cultivating there.

• He Liancheng traded the Nine Ring Tin Staff for the Magic Treasure flying sword Autumn Water, which Luo Chen planned to give to Sima Hui Niang.
• Tao Yisheng invited Luo Chen to Tao Wan’s Dao Seed Ceremony, where Tao Wan was formally named Azure Pill Valley’s Dao Child.
• Tao Wan explained the hierarchy of cultivation factions and brought Luo Chen to her Cave Mansion, whose spiritual energy was maintained at a weak third-order concentration.
• Tao Wan told Luo Chen that Danyangzi had lost his position after leaking a sect secret technique and said she would investigate its recovery.
• Tao Wan invited Luo Chen to stay in Dao Child Hall, and he accepted the cultivation benefits before entering the Cultivation Room to practice the Ageless Evergreen Scripture.

During his stay at Azure Pill Valley, Luo Chen cultivated rapidly in the Dao Child Hall and gained alchemical knowledge at the Grand Pill Institute, though its elders decided he lacked the talent to help refine a Nascent Soul Pill. He planned to leave within half a year, whether or not he reached Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer.

• Tao Wan stayed busy learning sect affairs and building her influence, while Luo Chen practiced spells and cultivated in the Dao Child Hall.
• Senior alchemists at the Grand Pill Institute discussed Luo Chen’s abilities and concluded that his solid foundation could not make up for his ordinary talent in alchemy.
• Qing Danzi decided to retrieve Danyangzi from Dragon Head Peak to help gather the alchemists needed to refine the Nascent Soul Pill, keeping Mu Yunyan as a last resort.
• Luo Chen left the Grand Pill Institute with the Star Plucking Hand and three incomplete Primordial Pill Recipes, while noticing that its elders had grown less welcoming.
• Luo Chen saw that his cultivation had reached Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer 55/100 and resolved to leave Azure Pill Valley within half a year.

Tao Wan supported Luo Chen with valuable cultivation resources while he stayed at Azure Pill Valley, and he returned to the Luo Tian Association with pills, formulas, and a breakthrough to Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer. After learning that Gu Cai Yi had failed to establish her foundation and was severely injured, Luo Chen examined her and promised she could recover, while she wept and held his hand.

• Tao Wan learned Luo Chen had been cultivating relentlessly, arranged yearly supplies of High-Grade Rising Dragon Pills, and sent him Tier 2 High-Grade Meridian Protection Pills; Luo Chen thanked her with Youth Preservation Pills.
• After a year and a half at Azure Pill Valley, Luo Chen left with new alchemical knowledge, pills, and a cultivation breakthrough, then returned to Danxia Peak and learned Murong Qinglian had established her foundation.
• Luo Chen congratulated Murong Qinglian and offered foundation-establishment supplies, but she told him Gu Cai Yi had failed her breakthrough and remained badly injured.
• Luo Chen visited Gu Cai Yi, examined her damaged meridians and nearly shattered Dantian, and told her he could cure her within a year.
• Gu Cai Yi doubted Luo Chen's reassurance, but when he tried to leave, she caught his hand and silently wept.

Luo Chen learned that Gu Cai Yi’s failed Foundation Establishment had left her gravely injured, and realized the Jade Dew Pills he had given her may have contributed to the disaster. He promised to heal her and took her to his cave mansion, where he planned to treat her himself.

• Gu Cai Yi told Luo Chen that fear and doubt had caused her to lose control during Foundation Establishment, leaving her Dantian shattered and her meridians damaged.
• Luo Chen reassured Gu Cai Yi that she would recover, then met Sima Hui Niang, who explained the care and treatment arranged for Gu Cai Yi.
• Luo Chen realized that the Jade Dew Pills he had given Gu Cai Yi had made her spiritual power dangerously pure, and suspected his good intentions had worsened her injuries.
• Sima Hui Niang gave Luo Chen an Autumn Water Longsword, and he told her that waiting three years for an Azure Sea Pill was too long.
• Luo Chen took Gu Cai Yi from her secluded courtyard to his cave mansion, promising to heal her and help her establish her foundation afterward.
• Gu Cai Yi confessed her love to Luo Chen and admitted her jealousy toward Sima Hui Niang, while Luo Chen resolved to use the Third-Order Rebirth Pill to treat her.

Luo Chen returned to Sky Wave Peak and devised a yearlong treatment plan to heal Gu Cai Yi without destroying her cultivation. He then reviewed the Luo Tian Association’s growth and approved plans to open a trade route to Mount Tai Market, ending with Sima Hui Niang handing him two years of earnings.

• Luo Chen brought the injured Gu Cai Yi to her room, treated her meridians, and learned that Bai Mei Ling had made progress solidifying her ghost body.
• After reviewing Sun Saint’s prescriptions, Luo Chen planned to stabilize and repair Gu Cai Yi’s meridians before using the Rebirth Pill, estimating that the treatment would take a year.
• Luo Chen chaired a meeting where the Luo Tian Association’s hall masters reported the organization’s growth, including its thousand-plus disciples, expanding industries, and thriving pill production.
• Yuan Xiaoyue reported on Danxia Hall’s branches and proposed opening one in Mount Tai Market, while Sima Hui Niang recommended preparing to secure the trade route and confront the Bai Family if necessary.
• Luo Chen praised Sima Hui Niang’s management and approved her decisions, then accepted a Storage Bag containing two years of earnings from her.