Recaps

Ashan taught Feng Yu'er, Feng Cheng, and Yun Qingping a new way to solve the chicken-and-rabbit problem while Su Hao studied the Golden Core Realm Spirit Method. Su Hao began a focused five-day attempt to break through to the Golden Core Realm.

• Feng Yu'er correctly answered that there were fifty-four chickens and thirty-four rabbits, while Feng Cheng and Yun Qingping received twice as much homework for failing to focus.
• Ashan used a feet-lifting method to explain how to solve the problem, astonishing Feng Yu'er, Feng Cheng, and Yun Qingping.
• Su Hao reviewed the Golden Core Realm Spirit Method and resolved to spend five days attempting the breakthrough.
• Su Hao used Marble Space and Little Light to analyze his organs' rhythms, then entered the Meditation Room, took Essence Pills, and activated his Senior Brother Token.
• Su Hao began meditating and focused his Spiritual Power on his body's structures and vitality.

Su Hao studied how cultivation manuals designed the body and began following the Cloud Moon Wind Trick Immortal Method’s plan to build a Golden Core. After completing the breakthrough and beginning the month-long transformation of his spiritual power, he realized his expanded circulation left him short on spiritual power.

• Su Hao reasoned that the Cloud Moon Immortal Method’s six branches were complete body-modification plans and set aside thoughts of seeking other manuals until he mastered the one he had.
• Su Hao constructed spiritual power cores in his five viscera over several days, then used Marble Space’s data and Little Light’s analysis to synchronize their rhythms and form a circulation.
• Su Hao completed the Golden Core breakthrough, reaching the Five Transformations level, and began stabilizing the new circulation.
• After three days of stabilization, Su Hao found that his spiritual power was gradually changing from azure to gold, a process he expected to take a month, and enjoyed the feast Ashan had prepared.
• Su Hao sensed that his expanded spiritual power circulation had left him with a serious shortage of spiritual power.

Su Hao sought Pills to shorten the long process of accumulating Golden Core spirit power, then claimed a basin for a medicinal garden and protected it with a low-energy confusion Formation. He finished planning how to obtain Pills and Spirit Herbs from Primordial Tri-Unity Peak and prepared to make Location Stones for easier access.

• Su Hao decided that waiting years to convert spirit power was intolerable and resolved to borrow Pills while Ashan worked toward producing them.
• Su Hao claimed the basin near his Experiment Base for growing Spirit Herbs and designed the Three-Day Mind Confusion Array to guard it.
• Su Hao installed ninety-six Flying Nails around the basin and activated the Formation, which suppressed perception and caused vertigo.
• Su Hao tested the Formation on a rabbit, confirmed it worked, and surveyed the protected garden.
• Su Hao returned to his Storage Space and decided to make Location Stones so he could enter and leave Primordial Tri-Unity Peak more easily.

Su Hao traveled to Primordial Tri-Unity Peak and began stealing Pills from Elder Shen’s Herb Garden. Elder Shen chased the apparently Golden Core thief from room to room, but Su Hao kept vanishing with each room’s Pills.

• Su Hao used Flash Step and flight to reach Resplendent Shell Province, then placed a Location Stone near Primordial Tri-Unity Peak.
• Su Hao surveyed the peak and discovered that Elder Shen was guarding the Herb Garden alongside a Body Integration Cultivator and other cultivators.
• Su Hao used Little Light to identify bottles and jars, flashed into an Alchemy room, and stole its Pills.
• Elder Shen attacked the empty room, then chased Su Hao through neighboring rooms as Su Hao repeatedly vanished with more Pills.
• Elder Shen realized the thief had taken even his personal cultivation Pills and demanded to know who he was.

Su Hao raided Elder Shen’s Herb Garden, taking samples of many Spirit Herbs before Sect Leader Ling Xuan arrived and attacked him. Su Hao escaped with Flash Step, leaving Ling Xuan unable to find him.

• Elder Shen recognized Su Hao as the Crystal Armor Man and fled to summon Sect Leader Ling Xuan for help.
• Su Hao scanned the Herb Garden and used Teleport to collect portions of different kinds of Spirit Herbs.
• Ling Xuan arrived and unleashed a mass of Flying Swords at Su Hao as he harvested the fields.
• Su Hao used Flash Step to escape Ling Xuan’s attack, and Ling Xuan could not locate him with Divine Intent.
• Elder Shen arrived and saw the damaged Herb Garden.

Su Hao repeatedly evaded Ling Xuan while stealing Primordial Tri-Unity Peak’s Spirit Herbs and Spirit Power Stones, drawing Ling Xuan away from the Herb Garden. When Su Hao returned to harvest more herbs, Elder Shen attacked him with a new Dharma Artifact.

• Ling Xuan learned from Elder Shen that the Crystal Armor Man had stolen the Medicine Valley’s Pills and damaged the herb fields, so he decided to wait for him.
• Su Hao watched Ling Xuan from a distance, then raided a Warehouse and took one-third of Primordial Tri-Unity Peak’s Spirit Power Stones before Flash Stepping away.
• Ling Xuan found the missing Spirit Power Stones and waited in the Warehouse, allowing Su Hao to return to the Herb Garden and resume harvesting.
• Elder Shen attacked Su Hao with his Twelve Heaven Gate Spikes, but Su Hao severed three Flying Shuttles with his Crystal Longsword while the others bounced off his Diamond Armor.

Su Hao harvested a small patch of every Spirit Herb in Primordial Tri-Unity Peak’s Medicine Valley while Elder Shen and the Nascent Soul Cultivators failed to stop him. After escaping, Su Hao returned to the sect to search its Library Pavilion, leaving Sect Leader Ling Xuan furious and still unwilling to abandon the Spirit Power Stones.

• Elder Shen attacked Su Hao with Blade Whirl Dance, but Su Hao redirected the Art Method behind him and shattered several of his Protective Barriers.
• Five Nascent Soul Cultivators arrived and attacked Su Hao, but he severed their Dharma Artifacts and returned their Art Methods; Eighth Elder stopped his black-smoke attack when Elder Shen threatened to cancel his pill allotment.
• Sect Leader Ling Xuan stayed behind to guard the Spirit Power Stones, while Su Hao harvested a small patch of each Spirit Herb in the medicine fields and left the rest behind.
• Su Hao Teleported away from Primordial Tri-Unity Peak, reviewed his collected pills, and decided to gather more supplies and record the sect’s books.
• Su Hao used Little Light to locate the Library Pavilion and Teleported inside, prompting Ling Xuan to curse him while Elder Shen felt less alone in his resentment.

Su Hao became the infamous Crystal Thief after raiding several Immortal Sects for Pills, then returned to his Experiment Base to focus on cultivation. He reached the Full Chamber stage of the Golden Core Realm and began tempering his spiritual power toward the Revolving Pill stage.

• Su Hao told Ashan to study and cultivate the Spirit Herbs in the sealed basin, warning him not to enter the mist.
• Su Hao raided Immortal Sects for Pills, and his thefts spread panic and earned him the name Crystal Thief.
• Su Hao returned to the Experiment Base with enough Pills for the Golden Core and Nascent Soul Realms, reviewed Ashan's records, and began cultivating.
• Su Hao swallowed large quantities of Pills and spent five months converting spiritual power until he reached Full Chamber in the Golden Core Realm.
• Su Hao repaired his body, then began cultivating the Revolving Pill stage to bring his abundant spiritual power under control.

Su Hao studied the altered Nascent Soul cultivation methods and concluded that the breakthrough involved a dangerous human tribulation controlled by Nascent Soul Elders. He chose to seek guidance from Feng Qianye, who did not recognize him or his Master Feng Ling.

• Su Hao paused his spiritual-power conversion and studied the Wind Pulse Nascent Soul Method, discovering that its crucial instructions had been obscured with coded language.
• Su Hao inferred that Nascent Soul Elders had altered the methods to force Golden Core cultivators to seek their guidance and submit to their control.
• Su Hao examined the Spirit Method and Art Method, concluded that a human tribulation threatened cultivators at the moment of breakthrough, and decided to ask Feng Qianye for guidance.
• Su Hao flew to Feng Qianye's cave and introduced himself as Feng Wei, a 56th Generation Disciple of the Wind Vein seeking advice about breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Feng Qianye appeared, questioned Su Hao about his identity, and asked who his Master Feng Ling was.

Su Hao met Feng Qianye to ask for guidance on the Nascent Soul cultivation texts, and she was astonished to learn he had reached the third Golden Core level only five years after joining the sect. Seeing his rapid progress as a chance to advance her own cultivation, Feng Qianye invited him in and agreed to explain the texts, while requiring him to report his progress every six months.

• Su Hao told Feng Qianye that his grandmaster was Feng Hua, then asked for guidance on cultivating Spirit Sense and breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Feng Qianye learned that Su Hao was a 56th Generation Disciple who had joined five years earlier and had defeated Feng Yu'er in the Senior Brother Token Competition four years ago.
• Feng Qianye suspected Su Hao's cultivation could help her reach the Integrated Body Realm and privately decided not to reveal his existence to others yet.
• Su Hao presented the Nascent Soul Art Method, Spirit Method, and Mental Method texts and asked Feng Qianye to explain them.
• Feng Qianye warned Su Hao about the dangers of a Nascent Soul breakthrough and ordered him to report his progress every six months; Su Hao agreed.
• Feng Qianye began explaining the Art Method line by line.

After learning about the Nascent Soul breakthrough from Feng Qianye, Su Hao returned to his Experiment Base and built a greenhouse Formation to help transplanted Spirit Herbs recover. He discussed Ashan’s research and the students’ training, then left while Ashan hinted that he might soon learn to travel through space himself.

• Su Hao considered how spirit power amplified Spiritual Intent into Spirit Sense and how he could apply the principle to his Perception Rune.
• Su Hao found that the transplanted Spirit Herbs were damaged and wilting, so he built a greenhouse experimental field with a Formation.
• Ashan arrived with Feng Cheng, Feng Yu'er, and Yun Qingping, explained greenhouse technology, and announced that he would teach them chemistry.
• Ashan told Su Hao that his research into spirit-power transformations was progressing toward a testing phase, and Su Hao encouraged him and the students.
• Su Hao vanished after promising to send Ashan instructions for controlling the greenhouse Formation, while Ashan privately anticipated learning to pry open space.
• Ashan refused to answer Feng Cheng's question about Su Hao's Art Method unless the students did three months of cooking and laundry.

Su Hao abandoned blind meditation and used experiments on preserved Nascent Soul Cultivators to investigate how to cultivate Spirit Sense. He discovered that the Primordial Yin-Yang Spirit Root described by cultivators was a resonant state between Spiritual Power and spiritual power, then began considering how to make that resonance permanent.

• After ten days of fruitless cultivation, Su Hao decided to compare the bodies of two Nascent Soul Cultivators with records from before their deaths.
• Su Hao designed experiments to distinguish bodily changes caused by Nascent Soul cultivation from those caused by Spirit Sense.
• After eliminating more than sixty possibilities, Su Hao filled the nerves in his arm with spiritual power and experienced it resonating with his Spiritual Power.
• Su Hao concluded that the Primordial Yin-Yang Spirit Root was not a physical substance but a synchronized state between Spiritual Power and spiritual power.
• Su Hao repaired the nerve damage in his arm and began working out how to solidify and spread the resonance throughout his body.

Su Hao used Ashan’s research to develop a way to transform spirit power so it synchronized with Spiritual Power, challenging the world’s belief that reaching the Nascent Soul Realm required years of Spiritual Power cultivation. After gathering data and testing a new Activator, he successfully transformed the spirit power in his left arm and declared that Spirit Sense could be achieved in a blink.

• Su Hao realized he could adjust spirit power fluctuations to match Spiritual Power, unlike other Cultivators who trained their Spiritual Power to match their spirit power.
• Su Hao reviewed Ashan’s research, optimized its Collection Tool Runes into a Composite Collection Rune, and sent Ashan the result.
• Su Hao collected data on his spirit power and on spirit power synchronized with Spiritual Power, using the nerves in his left arm despite the pain.
• Su Hao compared the data and designed a Spirit Power Nature Transformation Activator Rune.
• Su Hao exposed his left arm’s spirit power to the Activator’s light and confirmed that the spirit power had successfully transformed.

Su Hao used the Activator Rune to cultivate Spirit Sense in less than twenty days, then enhanced its perception with his Core Perception Rune. After testing its range and precision, he began studying the Nascent Soul Spirit Method to pursue the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Su Hao entered the Activator Rune and spent two hours guiding his spiritual power through its transformation.
• After his spiritual power settled, Su Hao gained Spirit Sense that could perceive minute details within three thousand meters.
• Su Hao activated his Core Perception Rune and extended his Spirit Sense across eighty thousand meters, observing people throughout the Immortal Sect.
• Su Hao summarized the limits and strengths of his enhanced perception and sent his experimental data to Ashan.
• Su Hao opened the Nascent Soul Spirit Method materials and began studying how to transform his body and reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

Su Hao studied the Spirit Method and used Little Light’s simulations and his Life Children to devise a way to accelerate his Nascent Soul breakthrough. After confirming the plan, he began twenty days of uninterrupted cultivation.

• After mastering Spirit Sense, Su Hao concluded he could use his Life Children to complete the Spirit Method’s bodily transformation far faster than ordinary cultivators.
• Su Hao asked Ashan to prepare abundant nutritious food for his seclusion, and Ashan sent Feng Cheng, Feng Yu'er, and Yun Qingping on indefinite leave.
• Su Hao had Little Light simulate Spirit Method cultivation, found that the first model predicted tissue damage, and added Life Children’s repair ability to the simulations.
• Su Hao cultivated at different metabolic speeds to collect data, then spent three days running simulations until Little Light confirmed an accelerated plan.
• Su Hao designed a regimen that raised his metabolism to 120 times normal and began twenty days of uninterrupted cultivation to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Su Hao recovered from his rapid breakthrough into the Nascent Soul Realm, replenished his spirit power, and began tempering it into Nascent Soul spirit power. He recommitted himself to advancing his research, believing he could eventually transform cultivation methods throughout the world.

• After twenty days of replacing much of his body with spirit power, Su Hao completed his Nascent Soul breakthrough but was left physically and mentally exhausted.
• Su Hao reminded himself to stay focused on mastering spirit power and eternal life, checked his research tasks, and fell asleep for three days.
• After recovering, Su Hao confirmed his rapid breakthrough method worked and began replenishing his spirit power with pills.
• Three months later, Su Hao had replenished his spirit power and resumed cultivating to complete its transformation into Nascent Soul spirit power.
• Su Hao considered Ashan’s progress toward a Spirit Power Nature Transformation Activator and resolved to revolutionize the Cultivation World’s Immortal Methods through research.

After completing the preliminary transformation of his spiritual power, Su Hao returned to Spirit Mountain Vein Province to test his abilities and replace an aging Location Stone. He found the province rife with fighting, but left without investigating and returned to Moon-Gazing Valley to meet Feng Qianye.

• Su Hao prepared his armor, weapon, and defenses before teleporting to Spirit Mountain Vein Province.
• Su Hao tested his expanded perception and found cultivators fighting nearby, then used Wind Bullet to destroy a mountain peak and tested his other abilities.
• Su Hao concluded that Nascent Soul spiritual power made his abilities roughly three times stronger than Golden Core spiritual power.
• Su Hao noticed frequent battles across Spirit Mountain Vein Province but decided not to investigate them.
• Su Hao buried a new Location Stone and teleported back to Moon-Gazing Valley, planning to meet Feng Qianye the next day.

Feng Wei revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm in only half a year, shocking Feng Qianye, who secretly planned to steal his spiritual power to reach the Integrated Body Realm. As Feng Qianye prepared to attack him in her cave mansion, Feng Wei confronted her about her intentions.

• Feng Wei arrived at Feng Qianye's cave mansion and reported that he had broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Feng Qianye was astonished by Feng Wei's rapid progress and questioned how he cultivated, while Feng Wei claimed he devoted all his time to cultivation and had barely learned any Art Methods.
• Feng Qianye invited Feng Wei into her cave mansion and secretly decided to take his spiritual power before he could grow stronger or attract the attention of other elders.
• Feng Qianye led Feng Wei into the reception hall and served him tea, confident that her formations and strength would let her take him down.
• As Feng Qianye prepared to attack, Feng Wei asked whether she wanted to take him out, horrifying her.

Feng Qianye tried to kill Su Hao in her cave dwelling, but his strange abilities repeatedly thwarted her attacks and escape attempts. After she failed to pierce his head with a hidden needle, Su Hao severed her head from her body.

• Feng Qianye trapped Su Hao with the Wind Spirit Seal and struck his neck with Azure Blade Shears, but he remained able to speak.
• Su Hao vanished, appeared behind Feng Qianye, shattered her defenses, cut off her left arm, and stunned her with Lightning.
• Feng Qianye tried to escape and then used her cave Formation to bind and attack Su Hao, but he endured both assaults and stunned her again.
• Feng Qianye pretended to answer Su Hao before firing a Cyan Edge Needle through his head, but it left him unharmed.
• Su Hao summoned his blade and swept it across Feng Qianye's neck, severing her head.

Su Hao killed Feng Qianye after she tried to self-detonate, then searched her cave abode and discovered Spirit Storage Stones. He transferred her spirit power into a stone and began considering whether such stones could be used to manufacture Spirit Power Stones.

• Feng Qianye tried to self-detonate her severed head, but Su Hao interrupted her with Lightning and cut her head apart.
• Su Hao recorded Feng Qianye's body data, took her corpse to the Laboratory, and searched her cave abode for valuables.
• Su Hao found three Spirit Storage Stones, including two filled with Nascent Soul spirit power, and took them back to the Laboratory.
• Su Hao worked out how to transfer spirit power into a Spirit Storage Stone and built a Rune Array Disk to automate the process.
• After four days, Su Hao finished storing Feng Qianye's spirit power and wondered whether Spirit Storage Stones could be used to make Spirit Power Stones.

Su Hao studied how to counter Integrated Body Cultivators and uncovered the cruel method behind their breakthrough, deciding to seek another path beyond the Nascent Soul Realm. Meanwhile, the Immortal Lord plotted to use the Crystal Thief’s connection to Moon-Gazing Valley to destabilize the Thirty-Nine Prefectures Mortal Domain and accelerate the collection of Blood Spirits.

• Su Hao returned to his Meditation Room, planned to study Integrated Body techniques, and began working to control his abundant spiritual power.
• The Immortal Lord and Lin Mei linked the Crystal Thief to Moon-Gazing Valley and planned to exploit the connection to stir conflict among the Immortal Sects.
• The Immortal Lord ordered Lin Mei to spread selected information, sent Evil Joy to devastate Moon-Gazing Valley and weaken other sects, and assigned Li Chi to accelerate Blood Spirit collection.
• After a year of study, Su Hao learned that the Integrated Body breakthrough relied on implanting same-source spiritual power, a method that began with the Fusion Origin Immortal and led to the exploitation of disciples.
• Su Hao rejected that breakthrough method and resolved to discover a different way to surpass the Nascent Soul Realm’s limits, confident that the advantage was his.

Su Hao studied the threat of Soul-Extinguishing Art Methods and decided to learn one so he could develop a defense against Body Integration Cultivators. Ashan completed his research into Spirit Power nature transformations, and Su Hao began reviewing the results while preparing to design new Foundation Establishment methods for Ashan and Feng Cheng.

• Su Hao concluded that Soul-Extinguishing Art Methods were the main danger Body Integration Cultivators posed to him and chose three techniques to study.
• Ashan told Su Hao that he had completed the research project on patterns of multiple Spirit Power nature transformations and sent him the findings and an application.
• Su Hao reviewed Ashan's research, praised him, and agreed to let him design and conduct a future project independently after showing Su Hao the plan.
• Ashan revealed that he had obtained a Senior Brother Token, and Su Hao offered to design a new Foundation Establishment method for him instead of using the proven Moon Vein structure.
• Su Hao told Ashan that Feng Cheng had also reached Level 4 Qi Induction and would need a specially arranged Foundation Establishment method.
• Su Hao opened Ashan's software and asked him to explain the Spirit Power Transformation Factory so they could verify its functions.

Ashan demonstrated his Spirit Power Transformation Factory software to Su Hao, who asked to experience an Art Method Implantation. Meanwhile, Moon-Gazing Valley’s six Lineage Masters decided to defend their sect against the forces accusing them of harboring the Crystal Thief, while Yun Xiao privately considered the Cloud Moon Immortal Method an opportunity.

• Ashan explained the software’s Art Method Implantation, Spirit Power Transition, and Combination Tool functions, and showed how he had successfully implanted several Art Methods.
• Ashan began collecting Su Hao’s spirit power data to implant the Qi-Form Wind Escape Technique.
• Yun Xiao and the five other Lineage Masters discussed the accusations linking Feng Wei to the Crystal Thief and whether Moon-Gazing Valley should flee or stay.
• Yun Xiao declared that the Lineage Masters would defend Moon Valley using its Formation and retreat to Azure Jade Nether Prefecture if they could not defeat their enemies.
• After the others left, Yun Xiao privately reflected on the Cloud Moon Immortal Method and called it a rare opportunity.

Su Hao used Ashan’s Art Method Implantation research to learn techniques rapidly, then implanted several Soul-Extinguishing Arts and devised the Fire Extinguisher to weaken them. Testing one of the Arts exposed the limits of his Absolute Defense, which he renamed Crispy Defense as a reminder not to rely on it.

• Su Hao successfully used the Qi-Form Wind Escape Technique after Ashan’s Activator Rune modified his Spirit Power, and he praised Ashan’s research.
• Su Hao implanted Life-Ending Heart-Piercing Drill, Bone-Corroding Soul-Draining Art, and Spirit-Dissolving Mind-Splitting Finger, then learned numerous other Art Methods.
• Su Hao rejected Spirit Power Stones as a model for resisting Soul-Extinguishing Arts and planned a protective Formation that would make those Arts self-destruct.
• Su Hao designed the first-generation Fire Extinguisher Activator, which stimulated Soul-Extinguishing Arts into losing their special effect.
• Su Hao tested Life-Ending Heart-Piercing Drill against his Absolute Defense Protective Barrier and watched the barrier collapse, so he renamed it Crispy Defense.

Su Hao completed his Fire Extinguisher defenses and cultivation methods for Ashan and Feng Cheng before investigating the Immortal Sect’s nine bell rings. At the Disciple Record, the cultivators mistook him for Elder Feng Wei when he revealed he had recently reached the Nascent Soul Realm, leaving Fairy Feng Ling and the others stunned.

• Su Hao tested the Fire Extinguisher against Soul-Extinguishing Arts and ordered plans for stronger defenses and cultivation methods for Ashan and Feng Cheng.
• Over the following weeks, Su Hao expanded the Fire Extinguisher’s range beyond two hundred meters, made four protective bracelets, and prepared foundation-building methods for Ashan and Feng Cheng.
• Nine bell rings stirred the Immortal Sect, so Su Hao met Fairy Feng Ling at the Disciple Record to find out what had happened.
• Feng Yong mistook Su Hao for Elder Feng Wei because he sensed Su Hao’s Nascent Soul cultivation, but Su Hao said he was only a disciple and had recently broken through.
• Fairy Feng Ling, Feng Cheng, Feng Yu'er, and the gathered cultivators were shocked when Su Hao confirmed he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm.