Chapter Summaries

Gu An began working as a handyman in the Taixuan Sect’s Medicine Valley and discovered he could seize lifespan from spiritual plants. After harvesting herbs for a day and gaining eighty-eight years, he resolved to keep the safe, rewarding job and received another harvesting task the next morning.

• Gu An carefully harvested a Red Spirit Flower and confirmed that he could seize one year of lifespan from it.
• Gu An offered to complete the harvest for Meng Lang and Li Ya, who left him to gather fifty Red Spirit Flowers.
• Zhang Chunqiu gave Gu An, Meng Lang, and Li Ya basic cultivation manuals and directed them to rooms for the Handyman Disciples.
• Gu An checked his Attribute Panel and saw that he had seized eighty-eight years of lifespan, then decided to remain in the Medicine Valley rather than pursue dangerous advancement.
• The next morning, Zhang Chunqiu assigned Gu An to harvest Spiritheart Grass and encouraged him to work diligently.

Gu An unlocked Lifespan Inspection after seizing lifespan from a damaged Calm Heart Grass, revealing that Li Ya had remarkable potential and far greater cultivation than he appeared to have. The chapter ended with Gu An, Meng Lang, and Li Ya choosing their first gifts from their returning master, Cheng Xuandan, and Li Ya unexpectedly choosing the Record of Hundred Herbs.

• Gu An emerged from a year of work in Medicine Valley alongside Meng Lang and Li Ya, whose bond had grown through gathering herbs and sharing a courtyard.
• A white-furred rat damaged a second-tier Calm Heart Grass, and Gu An seized four years of its lifespan, unlocking Lifespan Inspection.
• Gu An inspected Cheng Xuandan, Meng Lang, and Li Ya, discovering Li Ya was at the sixth level of Qi Refining and had a lifespan limit of 1,550 years.
• Gu An invited Li Ya to meet their returning master the next morning, then resolved to keep a low profile and build a good relationship with him.
• Cheng Xuandan offered each disciple a choice among the Record of Hundred Herbs, the Qi Cultivation Technique, and Poisonwood Vine; Meng Lang chose Poisonwood Vine, and Li Ya chose the Record of Hundred Herbs.

Gu An used Lifespan Evolution to transform the Qi Cultivation Technique into the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique, gaining a powerful physique while keeping his strength concealed. The next morning, he caught the white-furred mouse that had stolen Calm Heart Grass.

• Cheng Xuandan gave Gu An the Qi Cultivation Technique and warned the disciples to stay in Medicine Valley because demons had infiltrated the Taixuan Sect.
• Li Ya advised Gu An that the Qi Cultivation Technique suited him, and Gu An began cultivating it in his room.
• Gu An spent one hundred years of lifespan improving his Five Elements Spirit Root, then invested five hundred years to evolve the Qi Cultivation Technique into the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique.
• Gu An inherited the technique's cultivation memories, concealed his newly transformed strength, and overheard Cheng Xuandan and Zhang Chunqiu discuss a demon that had killed thirteen disciples.
• After failing to see his lifespan increase by dawn, Gu An spotted and captured the white-furred mouse that had gnawed on Calm Heart Grass.

Gu An learned about the dangers of the cultivation world and prepared for the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost, which eventually attacked Medicine Valley. After Chu Jingfeng and Li Ya rushed to confront it, their auras vanished, leaving Gu An hiding in his room as the valley fell silent.

• Li Ya explained that the White Spirit Mouse was a spirit beast, then warned Meng Lang to catch one himself rather than take Gu An's mouse.
• Meng Lang reported that Chu Jingfeng, a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, had arrived to guard Medicine Valley, and Li Ya described the dangers posed by demons and evil spirits.
• Gu An learned that the demon threatening the valley was called the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost and resolved to rely on his dragon force if Chu Jingfeng failed.
• Five days passed without an attack, but on the sixth night the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost appeared and Chu Jingfeng shouted before screaming.
• Li Ya rushed out to help Chu Jingfeng, but both men's auras disappeared, and the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost fell silent while Gu An hid with the trembling White Spirit Mouse.

Gu An survived the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost’s attack and secretly gained fifty-two years of lifespan, then received a leg manual and continued living quietly in Medicine Valley. A year and a half later, Du Ye visited to ask him to gather herbs for Ji Lin’s plans, and Li Ya gave Gu An a sword art before preparing to leave.

• The Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost attacked Gu An in his room, but he killed her with a slap and gained fifty-two years of lifespan.
• Gu An pretended to be unconscious when others arrived, and Taixuan Sect investigators concluded that an unknown person had slain the demon.
• Zhang Chunqiu gave Gu An the Residual Wind Leg manual and warned him to keep the demon’s death secret because she had been raised by a senior figure.
• Gu An practiced the leg art briefly, then spent the seasons tending the gardens while Li Ya and Meng Lang trained more diligently.
• Du Ye visited Gu An and asked him to gather herbs for Ji Lin to use in building support for Ji Xiaoyu within Taixuan Sect.
• Li Ya gave Gu An a sword art as a farewell gift and said he was preparing to leave.

Li Ya left Medicine Valley after giving Gu An the Li Family Seven Swords, and Gu An later accepted a job tending an Outer Sect disciple’s Cave Mansion. While harvesting valuable third-rank herbs there, he gained lifespan and discovered Chu Jingfeng waiting near Medicine Valley.

• Li Ya told Gu An he was preparing to establish his foundation, gave him a sword manual, and left Medicine Valley with Zhang Chunqiu after saying farewell to Gu An and Meng Lang.
• Gu An practiced the Li Family Seven Swords, and Zhang Chunqiu later brought fourteen-year-old Xiao Chuan to Medicine Valley.
• Zhang Chunqiu offered Gu An ten Mid-grade Spirit Stones to tend an Outer Sect disciple’s Cave Mansion while the disciple trained away, and Gu An accepted.
• Zhang Chunqiu flew Gu An to the Cave Mansion, showed him how to care for its herbs, and left him to work alone.
• Gu An harvested eleven mature herbs, gained eighty-nine years of lifespan from third-rank Spirit Flame Grass, and spotted fourth-rank spirit herbs in the Cave Mansion.
• Gu An returned toward Medicine Valley and saw the one-armed Chu Jingfeng waiting near its entrance.

After discovering that Zhu Moyai was connected to the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost, Gu An returned to Medicine Valley and used his accumulated lifespan to strengthen his cultivation technique. The chapter ended with him preparing to invest a thousand years in the Spring Origin Art.

• Gu An met Chu Jingfeng, who gave him a special Spirit Stone so they could communicate if anything happened.
• Two years later, Gu An brought Xiao Chuan to return a Cave Mansion jade token to Zhu Moyai and saw that the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost was hiding near him.
• Gu An overheard Zhu Moyai mutter that he was lucky and concluded that Zhu Moyai was connected to the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost.
• Gu An returned to his room, checked that no one was watching, and invested one hundred years to evolve the Spring Wood Technique into the Spring Origin Art.
• Gu An decided to invest a thousand years in improving the Spring Origin Art before using it to advance his cultivation.

Gu An used his lifespan to evolve the Spring Origin Art into the Divine Wood Pure Yang Technique and the Residual Wind Leg into the Gale Absolute Shadow Leg, improving his Wood Spirit Root and reaching the Second Layer of Qi Refining. Zhang Chunqiu showed him around Medicine Valley before Cheng Xuandan declared Gu An the valley’s eldest senior brother.

• Gu An spent a thousand years of lifespan evolving the Spring Origin Art into the Divine Wood Pure Yang Technique, improving his Wood Spirit Root and frightening Zhang Chunqiu and Meng Lang with the disturbance.
• Gu An spent five hundred years of lifespan evolving the Residual Wind Leg into the Gale Absolute Shadow Leg.
• Gu An cultivated through the night, broke through to the Second Layer of Qi Refining, and considered expanding Medicine Valley to grow more herbs and recruit Handyman Disciples.
• Gu An joked with Meng Lang about the previous night’s commotion, then listened as Zhang Chunqiu showed him around Medicine Valley and its surrounding mountains.
• Zhang Chunqiu brought Gu An to Cheng Xuandan, who declared Gu An the eldest senior brother of Medicine Valley, leaving Gu An shocked.

Gu An became Medicine Valley’s eldest disciple, welcomed two new junior disciples, and secretly alerted Chu Jingfeng about Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost. As a battle erupted outside the valley, Cheng Xuandan caught Gu An guarding the entrance, leaving him worried that his actions might be exposed.

• Zhang Chunqiu left Medicine Valley, and Cheng Xuandan made Gu An the eldest disciple after learning of his connection to the Ji Family.
• Gu An delegated the valley’s work to Meng Lang and Xiao Chuan, then secretly reached the fifth layer of Qi Refining over the next three months.
• Cheng Xuandan brought Ye Lan and Lu Jiujia to Medicine Valley, and Gu An settled them in while worrying they might face danger.
• Gu An contacted Chu Jingfeng and reported Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost’s whereabouts, asking that his involvement remain secret.
• After a battle began outside Medicine Valley, Gu An guarded the entrance and saw Cheng Xuandan watching him from a pavilion.

Gu An became Cheng Xuandan’s True Disciple and began learning Alchemy while keeping a low profile in Medicine Valley. A year later, Chu Jingfeng sent word that Zhu Moyai and the cultivator behind the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost had been dealt with, and gave Gu An a Chu Family jade pendant promising help.

• Gu An taught Lu Jiujia, Ye Lan, and Xiao Chuan the Residual Wind Leg before Cheng Xuandan summoned him and asked whether he had contacted Chu Jingfeng.
• Gu An explained how he had found the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost, and Cheng Xuandan made him a True Disciple, urged him to forget the dangerous affair, and gave him a Youth-Preserving Pill.
• Cheng Xuandan began teaching Gu An Alchemy, and over the next year he became more involved with the disciples and helped them cultivate medicinal herbs.
• Chu Jingfeng sent Gu An a letter explaining that Zhu Moyai had died and the Great Cultivator controlling the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost had been brought down; he also gave Gu An a Chu Family jade pendant promising assistance.
• Gu An destroyed the letter, then sparred against Xiao Chuan and Lu Jiujia, defeating both with his leg techniques.

Gu An gave Du Ye the medicinal herbs he had saved and received the Ji Family’s Eight Directions Step, then began practicing it in Medicine Valley. When Meng Lang suddenly attacked Ye Lan, Gu An stopped him with overwhelming strength, leaving his junior brothers and sister stunned.

• Gu An promised to teach Ye Lan the Residual Wind Leg and spent his free time reading and cultivating while Meng Lang trained in seclusion.
• During the winter, Gu An decided to expand Medicine Valley’s gardens as he watched Xiao Chuan, Lu Jiujia, and Ye Lan clear the snow.
• Du Ye arrived at Medicine Valley, spoke with Gu An about Li Ya and Ji Xiaoyu, and collected the medicinal herbs Gu An had prepared.
• Du Ye gave Gu An the Eight Directions Step, a basic footwork technique from the Ji Family’s Qilin Step secret art, and Gu An began practicing it.
• Meng Lang burst from his room and charged at Ye Lan, but Gu An pulled her aside and forced Meng Lang to his knees, shocking Xiao Chuan, Lu Jiujia, and Ye Lan.

Gu An helped Meng Lang recover from a qi deviation, then secretly used his lifespan to advance his cultivation. He fled Medicine Valley to avoid attracting attention and began breaking through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment in a remote forest.

• Gu An subdued Meng Lang during his qi deviation and calmed the chaotic spiritual power inside him.
• Gu An guided Xiao Chuan, Lu Jiujia, and Ye Lan in clearing land and planting Soul-Shaking Grass, then heard their different reasons for wanting to join the Outer Sect.
• Gu An grew wary of Cheng Xuandan after considering how Meng Lang had obtained a sinister divine technique, and decided to rely on himself to break through.
• Gu An spent one hundred years of lifespan to evolve his cultivation, advancing from the ninth layer of Qi Refining toward the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Gu An rushed into a distant forest to conceal the disturbance from his breakthrough, where his cultivation reached Foundation Establishment and continued rising through its layers.

While breaking through to the fifth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm, Gu An fought off two Taixuan Sect Outer Sect disciples and fled without revealing his identity. The disciples later investigated Medicine Valley for a suspected Demonic Path spy, and Gu An learned they only remembered the attacker’s fast leg technique.

• Gu An completed his breakthrough, masked his face, and fled when two powerful cultivators approached him.
• A white-robed woman attacked Gu An with her sword, but he kicked her away and then used Gale Absolute Shadow Leg to knock down the sword-wielding man before escaping.
• The next day, Gu An returned to his ordinary routine and worried that he might have killed the two cultivators.
• Shi Yang and Li Xuanyu visited Medicine Valley to investigate a suspected Demonic Path spy, and Gu An suppressed his cultivation to appear as a Qi Refining disciple.
• After Meng Lang described the Greed-Hatred Demon Ghost, Shi Yang said he only remembered that the suspected spy’s leg technique was very fast.

Gu An kept his cultivation plans secret while Meng Lang left with Cheng Xuandan for the Outer Sect and vanished. Months later, Cheng Xuandan returned aged and weakened, then took Gu An toward the Outer Sect and revealed that he had refined Meng Lang into a medicine gu.

• Shi Yang and Li Xuanyu left Medicine Valley suspecting that the mysterious fighter was an Outer Sect disciple, while Gu An's fellow disciples dismissed the idea that he was the Demonic Path spy.
• Meng Lang left with Cheng Xuandan to take the Outer Sect assessment, and Gu An began secretly investing a year of lifespan in his cultivation each midnight.
• Cheng Xuandan returned two months later with weakened cultivation and only two years of lifespan, then shut himself away to recover.
• Near winter, Cheng Xuandan invited Gu An to the Outer Sect and walked with him through the woods after Gu An instructed Xiao Chuan to manage the valley.
• After crossing a stream, Cheng Xuandan told Gu An that he had deceived Meng Lang and refined him into a medicine gu.

Cheng Xuandan revealed that he had killed Meng Lang to secure Gu An’s succession and confessed that he served as a Thousand Autumn Pavilion spy, then brought Gu An to the Taixuan Sect’s Outer Sect City to take over Mystic Valley. Gu An became Mystic Valley’s master and chose Wuxin, a young cultivator with an unusually long lifespan, as his first Handyman Disciple.

• Cheng Xuandan told Gu An that he had killed Meng Lang to clear the way for Gu An to become Medicine Valley’s successor.
• Cheng Xuandan revealed that he was a Thousand Autumn Pavilion spy and said a Seventh-rank Spirit Tree lay beneath Medicine Valley.
• Cheng Xuandan brought Gu An to the Outer Sect City, where Zhu Qinglu approved Gu An’s appointment as Mystic Valley’s master.
• Cheng Xuandan took Gu An to Handyman Hall and let him choose a Handyman Disciple.
• Gu An inspected the candidates’ lifespans and invited Wuxin, a Second-layer Qi Refining cultivator with a current lifespan of 330 years, to join Medicine Valley.

Gu An continued training in Medicine Valley while Wuxin, a spy from Thousand Autumn Pavilion, adjusted to life among the Handyman Disciples. When the White Spirit Mouse led Gu An beyond the valley into the forest, Gu An suspected it had found the hidden Seventh-rank Spirit Tree, while Wuxin planned to investigate the forest himself that night.

• Wuxin challenged Lu Jiujia to spar but lost twice, then watched Gu An effortlessly send Lu Jiujia flying and decided he wanted to learn leg techniques.
• Gu An told Lu Jiujia not to bully weaker people and instructed him to teach Wuxin leg techniques.
• At year's end, Wuxin secretly searched the Library Pavilion at night, while Gu An later went into the forest to carry out his daily plan.
• Gu An reached the seventh level of the Foundation Establishment Realm and remained curious about the hidden entrance to the Seventh-rank Spirit Tree.
• Wuxin noticed Gu An's interest in the forest and decided to investigate it that night.
• The White Spirit Mouse led Gu An out of Medicine Valley, and Gu An wondered whether it had found the Seventh-rank Spirit Tree.

Gu An discovered a sealed underground space near Mystic Valley and learned that Cheng Xuandan was preparing to leave. After Cheng Xuandan departed and made Gu An the new lord of Medicine Valley, Gu An explored the hidden entrance using the compass and inheritance his master had left behind.

• Gu An followed the White Spirit Mouse to a mysterious stone slab nearly twenty miles from Mystic Valley, but its powerful restriction repelled his divine sense, so he concealed it and kept watch on it at night.
• Gu An noticed Wuxin entering the forest each night but kept his suspicions to himself as summer passed and Mystic Valley's workload grew.
• Cheng Xuandan told Gu An that he would leave the next day, showed him the concealed entrance to an underground space, and explained that his identity had been inherited from his own master.
• Cheng Xuandan left Medicine Valley before dawn, and Gu An announced that he had become the new valley lord.
• Gu An found Cheng Xuandan's farewell letter, Storage Bag, and other belongings, then used the compass to open the underground entrance and went inside.

Gu An discovered the Eight Sceneries Grotto-Heaven, a vast hidden treasury he decided to make his secret base, and harvested enough medicinal herbs to raise his lifespan to seven thousand years. After subduing Meng Lang with a method found in the Myriad Gu Profound Technique, Gu An returned to Mystic Valley and began his new routine as its master.

• Gu An found the Eight Sceneries Grotto-Heaven, where a Seventh-rank Azure Vine Tree supported a hidden Formation and countless medicinal herbs grew.
• Gu An harvested more than a hundred third-rank herbs, gaining over nine hundred years of lifespan before Meng Lang emerged from a dark entrance and attacked him.
• Gu An defeated Meng Lang with the Gale Absolute Shadow Leg and discovered the Myriad Gu Profound Technique, which identified Meng Lang's affliction as Flame Corpse Gu.
• Gu An sealed Meng Lang's seven orifices to restrain the gu, then continued harvesting herbs until his lifespan reached seven thousand years.
• Gu An returned to Mystic Valley the next morning, told his junior brothers and Ye Lan they would become uncles and aunts to future Handyman Disciples, and led them through exercises.

Gu An harvested Azure Vine Fruits, unlocked the Longevity Barrier after surpassing ten thousand years of lifespan, and used lifespan to simulate and undergo a breakthrough. He successfully entered the Golden Core Realm and reached its sixth layer, then wondered whether to spend more lifespan.

• Gu An picked sixteen Azure Vine Fruits and gained 1,360 years of lifespan, bringing his total to 8,400 years.
• Gu An harvested more herbs until he surpassed ten thousand years of lifespan and unlocked the Longevity Barrier.
• Gu An left Medicine Valley to break through in seclusion and invested one thousand years of lifespan in simulated cultivation, eventually succeeding at the Golden Core Realm breakthrough.
• Gu An activated the Longevity Barrier, which shielded his breakthrough while consuming more than fifty years of lifespan.
• Shi Yang and Li Ya fought ten li away, then fled from Mystic Valley as Gu An continued forming his Golden Pill.
• Gu An reached the sixth layer of the Golden Core Realm and considered spending more lifespan.

Gu An invested two thousand years of lifespan to transform his Five Elements Spiritual Root, then endured twelve failed tribulations before reaching the third layer of the Nascent Soul Realm. He chose to remain hidden in Mystic Valley, where he discovered the White Spirit Mouse had gained lifespan after eating an Azure Vine Fruit.

• Gu An spent two thousand years of lifespan evolving his Five Elements Spiritual Root until all five reached first-rate mortal-body aptitude.
• Gu An invested two thousand years in cultivation, failed twelve Nascent Soul tribulations, and ultimately reached the third layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Gu An decided to stay in Mystic Valley rather than seek a position in the Taixuan Sect and planned to improve the Li Family Seven Swords while keeping a low profile.
• Gu An told Ye Lan to lead the others in practice, while Wuxin suspected the nearby mountains and forests held a mystery.
• Gu An found the bloated White Spirit Mouse alive after it ate an Azure Vine Fruit and saw that its lifespan had increased by seventy years.
• Gu An took another Azure Vine Fruit from the cabinet and began eating it.