Recaps

Wei Yunxi secretly kept the Spirit Jade Wood that had drawn the Green-Eyed Wolf Pack to Wei Yunting’s group, then led Wei Zonghao away from them. The two rested by a stream, where Yunxi gathered Weiwei grass to hide their scent as they continued through the mountains.

• Wei Yunting and Wei Zonghan extinguished the fire and used a Gale Talisman to disperse the Spirit Jade Wood’s scent before throwing the wood away to lure the wolves from their formation.
• The Spirit Jade Wood hit Wei Zonghao, and Wei Yunxi collected it, erased the traces, and hid with him as the Green-Eyed Wolf Pack searched nearby and then returned to attack the formation.
• Wei Yunting’s group spent the night defending the formation, with Wei Yunqing reluctantly contributing a low-grade spirit stone, until the wolves left at dawn.
• Wei Yunting told the exhausted group to sleep for an hour, while Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao slipped away and took a detour to avoid them.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao rested by a stream, and Yunxi gathered Weiwei grass to cover their scent from animals.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao used Weiwei grass to disguise their scent as they continued toward the Haoran Sect. They freed a trapped Red-maned Horse and asked it to carry them, leaving its answer unknown.

• Wei Yunxi taught Wei Zonghao how to find Weiwei grass, and they gathered and rubbed it on themselves to mask their scent.
• Wei Yunting's group reached the stream, where Wei Yunqing was attacked by a Water Lizard before Wei Zonghan drove it away with a fireball.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao avoided resting by the stream at midday and climbed a tree to rest instead.
• After hearing a horse neigh, Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao spotted a young Red-maned Horse trapped in Iron Thorns and decided to free it and ask for a ride.
• Wei Zonghao calmed the foal with sugar cubes while Wei Yunxi cut through the thorns, and after it escaped, he asked it to take them to the Haoran Sect.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao reached the Haoran Sect with help from Little Red-maned Horse and waited before its mountain gate. While other assessment groups struggled through the forest, Wei Yunxi broke through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining, and Wei Yunting’s group eventually arrived at the sect square.

• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao traded Wei Zonghao’s candy for a ride on Little Red-maned Horse and reached the Haoran Sect ahead of the deadline.
• Song Ke recorded their names and rankings, then took Little Red-maned Horse back to Spirit Beast Peak as the children settled down to meditate.
• Wei Yunting’s group traveled faster after deciding Wei Yunqing should stay close and not take action, while Wei Yunqing felt rejected by the others.
• Wei Yunxi cultivated through the night and reached the fourth layer of Qi Refining, though the Flower Diadem Immortal Artifact concealed her progress by lowering her apparent cultivation.
• Wei Yunxi gave Wei Zonghao a Bigu pill and offered to stand guard while he tried to break through.
• Wei Yunting’s group arrived at the square before the sect that afternoon, where someone pointed out a person in the gathering crowd.

Wei Yunxi and the Wei family children reached the Haoran Sect and began the second entrance examination, the Heart-Peeking Mirror. Inside it, Wei Yunxi saw a vision of Wei Yunqing and a man preparing to take her Spiritual Root and Golden Core, then recognized the scene from the novel she had read before transmigrating.

• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao explained how they had been separated from the others, while Wei Yunying revealed that Wei Yunqing had caused the Weasel Rat Swarm and Green-Eyed Wolf Pack incidents.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao shared how Weiwei grass juice had helped them avoid spirit beasts, leaving Wei Yunqing isolated from the group.
• Song Ke introduced the Heart-Peeking Mirror as the second test, and Wei Yunqing entered it first, followed by the other children.
• Wei Yunxi entered the mirror and found herself chained in a dungeon, where an adult Wei Yunqing and a handsome man accused her of harming Wei Yunqing.
• Wei Yunxi recognized the scene as part of the novel and denounced the pair for planning to take her Spiritual Root, Golden Core, and aptitude.

Wei Yunxi broke the Heart-Peeking Mirror’s illusion and passed the second assessment first, then waited with the other Wei family children as they emerged. Wei Yunqing finally came out in a battered, hostile state, and Song Ke knocked her unconscious before Wei Yunting asked what had happened.

• Wei Yunxi summoned the Flower Diadem Immortal Artifact, shattered the illusion, and was expelled from the Heart-Peeking Mirror, becoming the first to pass the second assessment.
• Song Ke praised Wei Yunxi, while the observing Haoran Sect elders learned she had Three Spiritual Roots and abandoned the idea of taking her as a disciple.
• Wei Yunxi rested with Wei Zonghao and told him that she had caught Wei Yunqing trying to steal from her and fought to reclaim her possession.
• Wei Zongyu, Wei Yunying, Wei Yunting, Wei Zonghan, and Wei Zongjin emerged from the mirror and joined the others, while Wei Yunqing remained inside.
• Wei Yunqing finally tumbled out bloodied and disheveled, glaring at Wei Yunxi; Song Ke knocked her unconscious, and Wei Yunting asked what had happened to her younger sister.

Wei Yunxi and the other children began the Haoran Sect’s final assessment, entering identical gates that led to an endless Blue Stone Path. After days of walking, Wei Yunxi recovered her strength with a spirit stone and continued through a punishing rain.

• Song Ke explained that Wei Yunqing had been put to sleep after remaining too long in the Heart-Peeking Mirror, and Wei Yunxi watched over her until she woke.
• Song Ke announced the final assessment and opened three identical gates, telling the children they had to walk through one to pass.
• Wei Yunxi chose the middle gate, and Wei Yunqing followed her while the other Wei family children entered the remaining gates.
• Wei Yunxi found a seemingly endless Blue Stone Path and kept walking, resting and eating as she went.
• When she found no Spiritual Qi to meditate with, Wei Yunxi used a Low-Grade spirit stone to restore her strength and continued onward.
• Three days later, heavy rain began falling on Wei Yunxi as she pressed on without shelter.

Wei Yunxi endured the final trial and became an Outer Sect Disciple of the Haoran Sect. After the assessment, Song Ke took the successful candidates to register, and the Wei Family members prepared to move into their Outer Sect residences.

• Wei Yunxi outran a spirit beast and reached the Blue Stone Path’s exit after enduring the prolonged trial.
• Song Ke congratulated Wei Yunxi on passing and told her to rest while the assessment continued.
• Wei Yunqing also passed, and all eight members of the Wei Family qualified for the Outer Sect.
• Song Ke assigned disciples with poorer aptitude to the Service Peak and took the remaining twenty-two to the Outer Disciple Hall.
• Steward Zheng began issuing Identity Jade Tokens and told Wei Yunting to wait with the Wei Family so he could take them to their residences.

The new disciples received their supplies and settled into the Outer Sect, where Wei Yunxi reviewed her assessment while Wei Yunqing pondered the strange differences between an illusion and reality. After the Wei Family led the newcomers around the sect, a mocking Outer Sect Disciple challenged their ambitions.

• Steward Zheng gave the twenty-two new disciples their identity tokens, cultivation supplies, residences, and a one-year deadline to reach the Qi Refining third layer.
• Wei Zonghao chose two neighboring courtyards, and the Wei Family divided into groups of men and women; Wei Yunxi and the others selected rooms in the girls' courtyard.
• Wei Yunxi rested after reviewing her assessment, while Wei Yunqing recalled the Heart-Peeking Mirror illusion and decided what she should do next.
• The next morning, the eight Wei Family disciples and the other newcomers went to the Dining Hall, then Wei Yunting led them around the Outer Sect's facilities and nine peaks.
• An unfamiliar Outer Sect Disciple mocked the newcomers' ambition to cultivate on peaks with richer Spiritual Qi.

Wei Yunting and the Wei Family’s new disciples refused Chen Feng’s attempt to intimidate them into pledging themselves to a mountain and taking their resources. After Wei Yunting sent word to Wei Lingkai, the group returned to their courtyard, while Chen Feng’s fellow disciples discussed why he had started targeting newcomers.

• Chen Feng confronted the new disciples and warned them to choose a mountain to pledge themselves to, but Wei Yunting said the Wei Family had come to cultivate, not seek a backer.
• Wei Yunting sent a Message Talisman to Wei Lingkai and stood firm against Chen Feng, who left after threatening to remember their refusal.
• Wei Yunting warned the group to travel together and protect their resources, while Wei Zonghan said Wei Lingkai would visit the Outer Sect.
• The group returned to the courtyard, where Wei Yunqing failed to explain herself; Wei Yunxi began cultivating the Qi Refining Chapter of the Soul Refining Art.
• Wei Lingkai received Wei Yunting’s message and planned to visit the Outer Sect the next day.
• Chen Feng’s courtyard companions said he had targeted the newcomers for resources because he felt abandoned by Junior Sister Tang and wanted to speed up his cultivation.

Chen Feng recalled why he had endured Tang Ru’s forced concubinage and resolved to remember his grievance against the Wei family disciples. Wei Lingkai visited his nieces and nephews, promised to address Chen Feng’s harassment, and equipped them to cultivate while warning them to act cautiously.

• Chen Feng remembered that Tang Ru had submitted to a Golden Core Elder to protect their standing, and that he had been too weak to help her.
• Wei Yunxi joined the other Wei family disciples in welcoming their uncle, Wei Lingkai, who received the family’s cultivation resources and heard about their sect examination and Chen Feng’s harassment.
• Wei Lingkai praised the disciples, promised to speak with Elder Zheng so Chen Feng would not trouble them again, and warned them not to abuse their family’s backing.
• Wei Lingkai set cultivation goals for the group and gave them Nourishing Spirit Pills and a jade slip of Qi Refining spells.
• Wei Lingkai offered to take the eight disciples to the Lecture Hall and introduce them to the Outer Sect Elder.

After Wei Lingkai’s intervention drove Chen Feng into hiding, the Wei family disciples settled into separate routines at the Outer Sect. Wei Yunxi spent her days reading in the Library Tower while Wei Yunqing accompanied her and appeared to search for something, leaving Wei Yunxi suspicious of her sister’s intentions.

• Wei Lingkai’s intervention became gossip across the Outer Sect, and Chen Feng decided to wait before targeting the Wei family disciples again.
• The Wei family members chose different cultivation routines, while Wei Yunxi went to the Library Tower to study and Wei Yunqing insisted on accompanying her.
• Wei Yunxi read through the day, returned to their residence, and spent the night cultivating.
• On the next day, Wei Yunxi selected different books, while Wei Yunqing carefully read the ones Wei Yunxi had handled the day before.
• Wei Yunxi suspected Wei Yunqing was searching for something connected to the books she had read.

Wei Yunxi spent several days reading in the Library while Wei Yunqing waited for her to uncover a hidden cultivation technique. After finding a travelogue and decoding its strange sentences, Wei Yunxi discovered the Wind-root movement technique "Thousand Shadows Swaying in the Wind."

• Wei Yunxi used her strong divine sense to read and memorize books while keeping Wei Yunqing from discovering the opportunity she sought.
• Wei Yunying asked Wei Yunxi about her Library reading, and Wei Yunqing eventually stopped accompanying her to focus on cultivation.
• Wei Yunxi organized the Library's first-floor books, and the guarding Foundation Establishment cultivator directed her to a hidden travelogue beneath a bookshelf.
• Wei Yunxi read "The Romantic History of the Xuanqing Scholar," a diary-style travelogue, and later bought Spirit Flour Buns with Wei Yunying and Wei Yunqing.
• Wei Yunxi recalled the travelogue's disjointed sentences, extracted their characters into a chant, and discovered the movement technique "Thousand Shadows Swaying in the Wind."

Wei Yunxi kept the wind-element cultivation technique from Wei Yunqing and began cultivating at the Cultivation Hall, where an unexpected nap raised her cultivation. She later logged into the Wooden Token Space and considered a trade offer for the technique.

• Wei Yunxi memorized and destroyed the incantation for Thousand Shadows Swaying in the Wind, deciding to keep the technique from Wei Yunqing.
• Wei Yunqing visited Wei Yunxi's formation at night, but Wei Yunxi ignored her; the next morning, Wei Yunxi deflected her questions and said she would stop going to the Library.
• Wei Yunting, Wei Yunying, Wei Yunqing, and Wei Yunxi went to the Cultivation Hall, where each received a numbered token and entered a cultivation room.
• Wei Yunxi activated the room's Isolation Formation and fell asleep; Spiritual Qi gathered around her, and she woke to find her displayed cultivation at the second layer of Qi Refining and her actual cultivation at the fifth.
• Wei Yunxi logged into the Wooden Token Space, told the group about her new wind-element technique, and asked Survival is the Hardest Truth what they would trade for it.

Wei Yunxi arranged a three-way resource exchange between Survival is the Hardest Truth and Tribal Warrior, then tried a nourishing Milk Fruit while cultivating. After changing cultivation rooms to avoid a dispute over reserved space, she learned the trade could provide her with five hundred Milk Fruits.

• Wei Yunxi declined Survival is the Hardest Truth’s Crystal Cores and weapons, then proposed that the group members help broker a three-way resource exchange.
• Tribal Warrior offered Milk Fruit and Little Yunyan for an Energy Shield, and Survival is the Hardest Truth agreed to provide the shield and its Crystal Cores.
• Tribal Warrior sent Wei Yunxi a Milk Fruit, which she ate and found nourishing and suitable for her.
• When Wei Yunxi tried to renew her cultivation room, the disciple on duty reassigned her because an older disciple had reserved the room; Wei Yunqing and Wei Yunying later learned she had returned to cultivation.
• Wei Yunxi rejoined the chat and asked how many Milk Fruits Tribal Warrior could provide, and he offered five hundred, the limit of his tribe’s supply.

Wei Yunxi completed a three-way resource exchange for Milk Fruits, then reviewed her cultivation plans and continued practicing. Her rapid progress surprised her sisters, and the next day the Wei Family gathered to find that several of them had also advanced in cultivation.

• Wei Yunxi traded Thousand Shadows Swaying in the Wind, Survival is the Hardest Truth, an energy shield, and Crystal Cores with the Tribal Warrior and other Chat Group members for five baskets of Milk Fruits.
• Wei Yunxi assessed her cultivation, resources, and plans to study alchemy and talisman drawing, then resumed cultivating while resolving to sleep at least three shichen each day.
• Wei Yunting noticed Wei Yunxi’s progress, and Wei Yunxi explained that diligent cultivation, abundant Spiritual Qi, and a top-grade Nourishing Spirit Pill had helped her advance.
• The next day, the eight Wei Family members gathered and learned that Wei Yunting and Wei Zonghan had reached the fourth layer of Qi Refining, while Wei Zonghao had reached the second layer and Wei Zongjin and Wei Zongyu were close to it.

Wei Yunxi continued cultivating while studying talisman crafting, and she deliberately provoked Wei Yunqing into pursuing a breakthrough. As Wei Yunqing went to cultivate, Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao headed to the Outer Sect Small Market to buy secondhand talisman tools and seek a Sky-Mending Pill.

• Wei Yunqing, Wei Zongjin, Wei Zongyu, and Wei Yunying broke through to the second layer of Qi Refining, while Wei Yunxi attended lectures and practiced offensive spells.
• Wei Yunxi chose alchemy and talisman crafting as her regular studies and found that exhausting her Spiritual Qi with spell practice slightly increased her cultivation.
• Wei Yunqing invited Wei Yunxi to visit the Small Market after her next breakthrough, but Wei Yunxi deliberately adjusted her cultivation to the third layer first and told Wei Yunqing she had beaten her to it.
• Wei Yunqing, Wei Yunting, and Wei Yunying went to the Cultivation Hall to cultivate, while Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao set off for the Small Market.
• Wei Yunxi told Wei Zonghao she wanted a secondhand Talisman Brush and secretly aimed to obtain the Sky-Mending Pill before Wei Yunqing could get it.

Wei Yunxi used Wei Yunqing’s fixation on a rumored aptitude-enhancing pill to distract her while searching the Outer Sect Market with Wei Zonghao. She secured the Sky-Mending Pill hidden in empty bottles, but Wei Yunqing caught up before Yunxi finished shopping for talisman supplies.

• Wei Yunxi explained her cultivation method to Wei Zonghao and led him around the Outer Sect Market while Wei Yunqing stayed behind to break through.
• Wei Yunxi traded five Nourishing Spirit Pills for a rosewood jewelry box, a secondhand Talisman Brush, and empty pill bottles containing the Sky-Mending Pill.
• Wei Yunqing broke through to the Qi Refining third layer, learned that Wei Yunxi was at the Market, and hurried after her to find the aptitude-enhancing pill.
• Wei Yunxi welcomed Wei Yunqing and showed her the Talisman Brush, letting her inspect it while Yunxi went to buy Blank Talisman Paper.
• Wei Yunqing found nothing unusual in the Talisman Brush as Wei Yunxi prepared to buy all the first-grade Talisman Paper at the stall.

Wei Yunxi traded pills for talisman-making supplies, then uncovered the Sky-Mending Pill hidden in an empty bottle. Wei Yunqing came to her room and was confronted by Wei Yunxi as someone interrupted their exchange.

• Wei Yunxi traded five Nourishing Spirit Pills with Hua Xuanzi for Blank Talisman Paper, then bought Message Talismans with another pill.
• Wei Yunxi, Wei Yunqing, and Wei Zonghao continued shopping at the Market, where Wei Yunxi suspected Wei Yunqing was following her to intercept opportunities.
• After the three returned home, Wei Yunxi found a Sky-Mending Pill hidden in the thick bottom of the fourth empty pill bottle and stored it in her space.
• Wei Yunqing knocked on Wei Yunxi's Isolation Formation, interrupting her talisman practice, and asked to come inside.
• Wei Yunxi challenged Wei Yunqing about what she wanted, and someone arrived and asked what the two sisters were doing.

Wei Yunting stopped Wei Yunqing from barging into Wei Yunxi’s room, and Yunxi later gave Wei Zonghao a valuable pill to secure his support. The chapter ended with Zonghao swallowing the pill while Yunxi stood guard.

• Wei Yunting intervened when Wei Yunqing tried to enter Wei Yunxi’s room, then told Yunqing to discuss her concerns with Yunxi another day.
• Wei Yunxi complained to Wei Yunting about Yunqing’s overbearing behavior and later resolved to make use of a valuable pill rather than let Yunqing benefit from it.
• Wei Yunxi visited Wei Zonghao and told him that Wei Yunqing had tried to force her way into her room.
• Wei Yunxi gave Wei Zonghao a fragrant pill, and he accepted it without showing greed and promised to repay her favor.
• Wei Zonghao prepared himself and swallowed the pill while Wei Yunxi stood guard.

Wei Yunxi gave Wei Zonghao a pill that greatly improved his Spiritual Root Value and secured his promise to keep the opportunity secret. The next morning, she resumed her cultivation and began practicing talisman drawing.

• Wei Yunxi gave Wei Zonghao the pill to strengthen their alliance and keep Wei Yunqing from learning about the treasure.
• Wei Zonghao endured the pill’s effects, expelled foul-smelling impurities, and found that matching Spiritual Qi no longer escaped his body.
• Wei Yunxi warned Wei Zonghao to conceal his improved Spiritual Root Value, and he promised to keep it secret while aiming to reach the Qi Refining third layer.
• Wei Yunqing suffered a sudden bout of blood-spitting during meditation and narrowly avoided Qi Deviation.
• Wei Yunxi went to the Cultivation Hall with Wei Yunting and Wei Yunying, practiced her attack spells, restored her spiritual power, and began drawing Dust Removal Talismans.

Wei Yunxi and the Wei family disciples shared cultivation advice and support, then a year passed as their cultivation levels diverged. With the new disciples’ protection period over, they went to the Mission Hall to accept mandatory Sect Missions, where Wei Yunxi met Senior Sister Hua Xuanzi.

• Wei Zonghao announced that he had reached the fourth layer of Qi Refining and credited Wei Yunxi’s method of exhausting spiritual power before cultivating.
• Wei Yunxi explained the risks of the method outside a safe place and gave the disciples Dust Removal talismans for practice.
• Wei Yunting and Wei Zonghan urged the Wei family disciples to help one another, while Wei Yunying criticized Wei Yunqing for her attitude and slow progress.
• A year later, Wei Yunting and Wei Zonghan had reached the sixth layer of Qi Refining, Wei Yunying and Wei Yunqing the fourth, Wei Zonghao the late sixth, and Wei Yunxi the eighth while concealing her level.
• Wei Zonghao invited Wei Yunxi and the others to the Mission Hall to accept their required monthly Sect Missions.
• Wei Yunxi reached the front of the novice mission line and greeted Senior Sister Hua Xuanzi, an old acquaintance on duty there.

Wei Yunxi and her companions accepted their first Sect Missions, and Hua Xuanzi advised Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao to plant Spiritual Rice. At the Outer Five Peaks, the pair registered and prepared to choose their spirit fields.

• Hua Xuanzi recommended that Wei Yunxi take a continuous mission planting Spiritual Rice and explained how to choose rice varieties and a field.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao accepted Spiritual Rice planting missions, while Zong Yu chose to assist in the Artifact Refining Room.
• Wei Yunying chose to tend Herb Fields, Wei Zongjin chose to clean at Spirit Beast Peak, and Wei Yunqing chose to sort spirit herbs at Alchemy Peak.
• An unseen person watched the six leave the Mission Hall and then entered it.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao went to the Outer Five Peaks, gave a steward disciple their Identity Jade Tokens and low-grade spirit stones, and asked to collect seeds and tools.
• The steward disciple showed Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao a spirit field distribution map and recommended they choose three mu each.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao established neighboring spirit fields and began cultivating Spirit Rice. When Zonghao left to buy supplies, Chen Feng attacked Yunxi, who struck him with a Lightning Strike Talisman.

• Yunxi and Zonghao registered adjacent B-grade spirit fields in Zone B and received seeds, tools, and planting instructions.
• The two prepared their fields, planted Spirit Rice Seeds, and watered the plots with the Rainfall Technique over seven days.
• After resting, Zonghao left to buy food and a stove while Yunxi stayed to watch the fields and cultivate.
• Chen Feng waited until Zonghao was gone, then broke into Yunxi's thatched hut and threatened her.
• Yunxi recognized Chen Feng and struck him with a Lightning Strike Talisman.

Wei Yunxi killed Chen Feng after he ambushed her, then concealed the incident and returned to tending the spirit fields with Wei Zonghao. As the rice ripened, she noticed someone lingering near their fields.

• Wei Yunxi fought Chen Feng with her sword and talismans after he attacked, then killed him with an Ice Thorn Technique as he tried to flee.
• Wei Yunxi burned Chen Feng's body and Storage Pouch, erased the evidence, and spent the night shaken by her first kill.
• Wei Yunxi kept watch for possible accomplices while maintaining her routine, and Wei Zonghao returned with food, supplies, and news about the other disciples.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao tended their growing Spiritual Rice, and by the third month she noticed someone lingering near their spirit fields.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao prepared for people watching their spirit field, while Tang Ru investigated Chen Feng’s disappearance and ruled out the siblings. After consulting Fan Si about the suspicious watchers, they heard his warning to harvest their Spiritual Rice early.

• Wei Yunxi told Wei Zonghao that someone had watched them for three days, and they made plans to respond.
• Tang Ru used Chen Feng’s jade hairpin to track his last known location, investigated the Wei siblings, and crossed them off her list of suspects.
• Wei Yunqing gained a long-term herb-sorting mission at Alchemy Peak and decided to pursue pill cultivation, while her siblings dismissed her attempts to complain.
• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao met Fan Si, who offered to help them switch to connected spirit fields after harvest.
• Wei Zonghao told Fan Si that people had been lingering near their field, and Fan Si advised them to ripen and harvest the Spiritual Rice early.