Chapter Summaries

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.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao acted on Fan Si’s warning by accelerating their harvest and strengthening their cultivation before anyone could target them. After Zonghao reached the seventh level of Qi Refining, they began harvesting Yunxi’s field while she concealed her true cultivation and drew talismans.

• Fan Si warned Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao that the sect’s Law Enforcement Hall could not protect them from every threat, and the two decided to act quickly.
• Yunxi activated her field’s barrier and used spirit stones to ripen Zonghao’s Spirit Rice while he entered seclusion to break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining.
• Yunxi harvested all three mu of Zonghao’s rice overnight, and he emerged at daybreak with his cultivation breakthrough complete.
• Zonghao accompanied Yunxi to her field, keeping the barrier active around his already-harvested plot to mislead anyone watching them.
• Yunxi pretended to cultivate in the thatched hut, adjusted her displayed cultivation to the fifth layer of Qi Refining, and drew talismans while Zonghao ripened her rice.
• Zonghao began harvesting Yunxi’s Spirit Rice, and Yunxi put away her talisman tools and joined him.

Zonghao and Yunxi harvested their Spirit Rice early and completed their mission before White Honey devastated the Outer Five Peaks’ fields. The Law Enforcement Hall cleared them of suspicion, but its investigation exposed Tang Ru’s scheme and cost her the protection of the Golden Core True Person she relied on.

• Zonghao and Yunxi delivered their early harvest to Senior Brother Wang, completed their mission, and left the Outer Five Peaks.
• Yunxi returned to the Disciple Courtyard, encountered Wei Yunqing, and installed a Third-Grade Protective Formation Disk in her room.
• White Honey ravaged every unharvested Spirit Rice field in the Outer Five Peaks, prompting the Law Enforcement Hall to investigate deliberate sabotage.
• The Law Enforcement Hall questioned Yunxi and Zonghao, verified their account with Fan Si and the steward disciple, and redirected suspicion toward disciples who had lurked around the fields.
• The investigation led to Tang Ru, whose Golden Core True Person discovered she had used his spirit stones to support her lover and drove her out of his Immortal Cave.

Yunxi and Zonghao avoided suspicion after the Spirit Rice disaster, then Yunxi helped the Tribal Warrior’s tribe survive its food shortage by sending Bigu pills and Spirit Rice. After cultivating, Wei Yunqing took pills from Senior Brother Ye to catch up with Yunxi, and began forcing Spiritual Qi through her Meridians.

• Tang Ru’s search for Chen Feng made him the leading suspect in the destruction of the Spirit Rice fields, while Yunxi and Zonghao privately agreed that he had targeted them.
• Yunxi and Zonghao decided to wait for Spiritual Rice prices to rise before selling their harvest and spent their accumulated cultivation time at the Cultivation Hall.
• Yunxi learned that the Tribal Warrior’s tribe had endured a deadly Cold Season and was migrating with little food, so she sent ten bottles of Bigu pills and a hundred jin of Spirit Rice.
• The Tribal Warrior promised to repay Yunxi with Milk Fruit when the Hot Season arrived, and Yunxi logged off to continue cultivating toward Qi Refining Layer 9.
• Frustrated that Yunxi kept advancing ahead of her, Wei Yunqing rented a cultivation room, swallowed Senior Brother Ye’s pill, and began guiding the surging Spiritual Qi through her body.

Yunxi and Zonghao encountered Wei Yunqing, who bragged about reaching the eighth level of Qi Refining, then sold Spiritual Rice at the Market. After Yunxi reached Qi Refining Layer 9, Hua Xuanzi invited her on a mission, and she and Zonghao planned to meet him at the Mission Hall.

• Wei Yunqing told Yunxi and Zonghao that she had reached the eighth level of Qi Refining and planned to move closer to the Inner Sect.
• Yunxi pointed out that Wei Yunqing's breakthrough seemed unstable, reassuring Zonghao that steady cultivation mattered more than rushing ahead.
• Yunxi and Zonghao sold Spiritual Rice at the Market, where Yunxi bought talisman supplies and Zonghao bought First Order Spiritual Herb Seeds.
• Wei Yunying told Yunxi she planned to attempt a breakthrough to the fifth layer of Qi Refining, and Yunxi comforted her about Wei Yunqing's unstable cultivation.
• Yunxi received a Message Talisman from Hua Xuanzi inviting her to join a mission in the sect's back mountain, and she arranged to meet him at the Mission Hall the next day.
• Zonghao decided to accompany Yunxi to check out the mission.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao joined Hua Xuanzi’s temporary squad for a back-mountain mission to gather Golden Sand Grass and capture Sand Rats. As the group entered the mountain, Yunxi noticed Senior Brother Li secretly marking their path and grew wary of the squad’s intentions.

• Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao accepted Hua Xuanzi’s invitation to join her squad and registered for the mission.
• The cousins prepared, told Yunying and Zong Yu where they were going, and met Hua Xuanzi and the other squad members at the back-mountain entrance.
• Senior Brother Zhao led the six disciples into the mountain, placing Yunxi and Zonghao in the middle of the formation.
• Yunxi noticed Senior Brother Li leaving hidden marks along the path and wondered whether he was plotting against the cousins or the entire squad.
• When Zonghao asked about her worried expression, Yunxi said she was simply surprised by how vast the back mountain was.

Yunxi and Zonghao joined Hua Xuanzi’s group to collect Golden Sand Grass from a Sand Rat nest, while Yunxi revealed that someone was following them and might attack during the mission. The team began harvesting the grass after luring most of the Sand Rats away.

• Hua Xuanzi warned Yunxi and Zonghao to avoid the dangerous Inner Ring, and the group discussed the earlier spirit-field incident involving Chen Feng.
• Senior Brother Zhao assigned the group roles for collecting Golden Sand Grass from a Sand Rat nest.
• Yunxi used an Isolation Formation Disk to tell Zonghao that people were following them, and they agreed to stay together and watch for an attack.
• The group reached the nest and lured most of the Sand Rats away with smoke.
• Yunxi burned the remaining Sand Rats at the entrance with Fireball talismans, while Hua Xuanzi cleared others and collected them as the two entered the nest.

Yunxi and Wei Zonghao harvested Golden Sand Grass before discovering that Senior Brother Li and Junior Sister Zhang had ambushed Zhao and Qian. As a second-tier Sand Rat returned to the nest, Yunxi and Zonghao chose to help Hua Xuanzi’s group, and the two sides began fighting.

• Yunxi and Hua Xuanzi harvested Golden Sand Grass while Wei Zonghao fought Sand Rats, until he warned them that Zhao and Qian were in danger.
• Yunxi burned the remaining Golden Sand Grass to draw the Sand Rats back to their nest, and the group fled as a second-tier Sand Rat stirred.
• Hua Xuanzi and Yunxi learned that Senior Brother Li and Junior Sister Zhang, aided by three outsiders, were attacking Zhao and Qian.
• Hua Xuanzi jumped down to aid her companions while Yunxi and Wei Zonghao watched from trees; Qian revealed that Zhang and Li had conspired with outsiders.
• Zhao and Hua Xuanzi’s group confronted the attackers, and Yunxi decided that she and Wei Zonghao should help Hua Xuanzi’s side.

Yunxi and Zonghao intervened when Senior Brother Qian betrayed the group, helping Hua Xuanzi and Senior Brother Zhao defeat the conspirators. After the battle, a second-tier Sand Rat attacked their formation, and Senior Brother Zhao proposed wearing it down by letting the Sand Rats in a few at a time.

• Yunxi struck Senior Brother Qian with a Lightning Strike Technique as he tried to ambush Hua Xuanzi, and Hua Xuanzi killed him.
• Yunxi and Zonghao entered the battle, helped Hua Xuanzi kill her opponent, and then joined Hua Xuanzi in turning the fight against Senior Brother Li and Junior Sister Zhang.
• Junior Sister Zhang hurled a Second Order Talisman at the Wei siblings, but Yunxi trapped her and the talisman in a separate formation space until it exploded.
• Hua Xuanzi and Senior Brother Zhao killed the remaining enemies, then thanked Yunxi and Zonghao for saving them.
• A second-tier Sand Rat and its descendants attacked the formation, and Senior Brother Zhao suggested letting the Sand Rats in batches and killing them until the formation-worn Sand Rat died.

Yunxi and the others trapped the Sand Rat family in her formation and fought their way through the first-tier rats. With the formation’s mid-grade spirit stones running low, they prepared to face the second-tier leader in one final battle.

• Yunxi explained that the formation needed mid-grade spirit stones to hold the second-tier Sand Rat, and the group gathered nine by combining their own stones with those from Qian, Li, and Zhang’s Storage pouches.
• Yunxi divided the formation into nine spaces, and the four rested before entering the section with the most Sand Rats.
• Senior Brother Zhao, Hua Xuanzi, Zonghao, and Yunxi fought together to clear each section, while Yunxi practiced combining offensive spells and adjusted her cultivation to the sixth layer of Qi Refining.
• By midnight, the group had killed nearly all the first-tier Sand Rats, but Yunxi saw that the formation’s spirit stones were losing power.
• Senior Brother Zhao assigned himself and Hua Xuanzi to hold the second-tier leader while Yunxi and Zonghao dealt with the remaining first-tier rats, and Yunxi warned them to target the Sand Rat’s eyes and belly.
• After recovering for an hour, the four charged into the formation to attack the second-tier Sand Rat leader.

Yunxi and her companions fought to survive the second-tier Sand Rat while clearing out its swarm of first-tier Sand Rats. After Senior Brother Zhao’s Talisman Treasure failed, Yunxi and Hua Xuanzi launched their planned barrage at the charging beast.

• The second-tier Sand Rat’s sound attack and pressure pinned down Hua Xuanzi, Senior Brother Zhao, and Zonghao, but Yunxi resisted and used First Order Talismans to disrupt the swarm.
• Yunxi evaded the Sand Rat’s attacks while Zonghao and the others harvested first-tier Sand Rats, and Senior Brother Zhao summoned a Cloud Swallowing Leopard with his Talisman Treasure to restrain the beast.
• Yunxi gave Hua Xuanzi second-tier Lightning Strike Talismans, which scorched the Sand Rat and helped keep it at bay while Yunxi and Zonghao cleared the remaining swarm.
• As Senior Brother Zhao weakened and the Talisman Treasure dimmed, Yunxi split her remaining supplies with Hua Xuanzi and planned a joint barrage for when the treasure failed.
• Senior Brother Zhao’s Talisman Treasure dissipated, and Yunxi and Hua Xuanzi threw their second-tier Talismans at the Sand Rat as it charged.