Chapter Summaries

Han Yuan hired Liu Sisi to awaken Wangcai’s bloodline, and a Random Buff Multiplier transformed the successful awakening into an evolution to a Flying Purple Flame Dog. After seeing Wangcai’s Golden Core potential, Liu Sisi asked to join Cangming Cave Mansion, and Han Yuan accepted her.

• Qin Feng and Liu Sisi visited Cangming Cave Mansion, where Han Yuan traded Qi Condensing Pills for Liu Sisi’s awakening materials and hired her to help awaken Wangcai.
• Liu Sisi prepared an Awakening Pool, and Wangcai absorbed a Vermillion Fruit and awakened his Blazing Hound bloodline.
• Wangcai accepted a Blue Flame Crystal and evolved into a Blue Flame Hound with Foundation Establishment potential.
• Han Yuan’s Random Buff Multiplier activated at six hundred percent, triggering a further evolution that turned Wangcai into a Flying Purple Flame Dog with Golden Core potential.
• Liu Sisi asked to join Cangming Cave Mansion after realizing Wangcai’s potential, and Han Yuan welcomed her.

Wangcai reached the Seventh Level of Qi Condensation, gained flight and Purple Flame, and began speaking to Han Yuan through their Contract Rune. Han Yuan learned the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art and used an eightfold random buff to conceal himself as a tree, then continued cultivating the technique.

• Wangcai’s spiritual power broke through to the Seventh Level of Qi Condensation, and he gained flight and Purple Flame as innate abilities.
• Wangcai spoke to Han Yuan through their Contract Rune, which Han Yuan discovered had grown more complex and could let him borrow Wangcai’s flight.
• Han Yuan asked Liu Sisi about coordinating with Spirit Beasts, then gave her an Affiliated Token to use a room in Cangming Cave Mansion.
• Han Yuan read the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art and decided to cultivate it rather than seek the purple-haired elder’s inheritance spells.
• Han Yuan cultivated the art in his exclusive Cultivation Room and received an eightfold boost to its entry-level effect, disguising his aura as a tree.
• Han Yuan continued comprehending the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art, aiming to reach Minor Accomplishment.

After seven days of cultivation, Han Yuan emerged briefly, reached the Qi Refining Fifth Layer, and assigned Liu Sisi new duties before returning to seclusion. Outside the cave mansion, Liu Xinghe prepared to act, while Liu Sisi bought Han Yuan a Spirit Script Ancient Stone Wall entry token and waited for him to emerge.

• Liu Sisi asked Han Yuan to use the Spirit Beast Garden and Fierce Beast Garden, and he agreed in exchange for half the profits.
• Han Yuan asked Liu Sisi to search long-term for Half-Spirit Beasts with precious bloodlines, then sensed Qin Feng, Chang Chun, and Wangcai managing the cave mansion.
• Han Yuan explained that seven days of cultivation had brought him to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer and Minor Accomplishment in the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art, then returned to seclusion.
• Liu Xinghe saw Liu Sisi leave the cave mansion, learned she belonged to another branch of his family, and sent a message to prepare Plan B.
• Liu Sisi's junior sister persuaded her to buy Han Yuan an entry token for the Spirit Script Ancient Stone Wall and contributed 150 Spirit Stones.
• Liu Sisi bought a token for four hundred Spirit Stones, moved her beasts into the cave mansion, and waited for Han Yuan to leave seclusion.

After eighty days in seclusion, Han Yuan reached the Qi Refining Fifth Layer Peak but failed twice to break through, while his Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art advanced to Major Accomplishment. Liu Sisi gave him an expensive pass to the Spirit Script Ancient Stone Wall, but he suspected a hidden motive and decided to postpone visiting until after his True Disciple Ceremony.

• Han Yuan emerged from seclusion with his Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art at Major Accomplishment and three farming spells at entry level.
• Liu Sisi gave Han Yuan a five-hundred-Spirit-Stone entry pass to the Spirit Script Ancient Stone Wall, and he accepted it after hearing how it worked.
• Chang Chun told Han Yuan that only thirty mu of Yellow Millet Rice had been planted successfully and that the crop still needed six months to mature.
• Han Yuan agreed to help with farming and said he would later seek more workers, while Liu Sisi asked for help staffing the Spirit Beast Garden and Fierce Beast Garden.
• Han Yuan suspected the entry pass had been arranged for a hidden reason, put it away, and chose to wait until after his True Disciple Ceremony before visiting the stone wall.

Liu Xinghe spread rumors about Han Yuan’s extraordinary comprehension, drawing Sect Master Feng Jianming’s attention to him. Han Yuan’s True Disciple Ceremony was interrupted when Feng Jianming demanded that he be tested on Spirit Script Peak’s Ancient Stone Wall.

• Liu Xinghe concluded that Han Yuan’s comprehension was exceptional and ordered his group to carry out a final plan.
• Rumors about Han Yuan’s cultivation and talents spread through the Earth God Sect, and Feng Jianming secretly inspected the spirit tree at Han Yuan’s former residence.
• Han Yuan arrived at Spirit Script Peak’s True Disciple Ceremony with Du Yuanhe, who urged him to conceal his Wood Spirit Heart and act quickly.
• As Han Yuan was about to accept Du Yuanhe as his master, Feng Jianming and the other peak lords arrived and challenged the ceremony.
• Feng Jianming examined Han Yuan, then proposed testing his comprehension with the Spirit Script Ancient Stone Wall; Du Yuanhe agreed, and Han Yuan felt confident he would show nothing special.

Han Yuan was brought to the Spirit Script Ancient Stone Wall, where he spaced out instead of deliberately seeking insight. Dai Yinzhu unexpectedly comprehended the Wood Spirit Script, but after it passed on its inheritance, the script remained visible on the wall.

• Du Yuanhe brought Han Yuan to the Spirit Script Ancient Stone Wall, and Sect Master Feng Jianming set an hour-long limit for observing a reaction.
• Han Yuan sat before the wall and gradually emptied his mind while his Wood Spirit Heart cultivated autonomously.
• Dai Yinzhu sat behind Han Yuan and connected with the Wood Spirit Script through his understanding of medicinal herbs and the Dao of Wood.
• The Wood Spirit Script shone and sent its inheritance into Dai Yinzhu, briefly pausing as it passed Han Yuan.
• Dai Yinzhu rejoiced at receiving the inheritance, while the others noticed that the Wood Spirit Script had not disappeared from the wall.

Han Yuan’s Wood Spirit Heart resonated with the Spirit Script Ancient Stone Wall as he broke through, triggering a Wood Spirit inheritance and revealing seven more Spirit Scripts. The sect’s leaders recognized how extraordinary he was, and Feng Jianming prepared to report him to the Golden Core True Persons and possibly the Nascent Soul Ancestor, warning that their memories might be altered or erased.

• Han Yuan’s Wood Spirit Heart began beating rapidly and purifying his spiritual power, so he seized the chance to break through while concealing his fluctuations with the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art.
• As Han Yuan broke through, the Wood Spirit Script grew brighter, leaving Dai Yinzhu, Du Yuanhe, and the other observers confused by the simultaneous breakthrough and apparent comprehension.
• Han Yuan shattered and expanded his Dantian, then received the Wood Spirit Script inheritance as a green spiritual light entered his Sea of Consciousness.
• Han Yuan saw a random buff multiplier of seven, after which seven more Spirit Scripts appeared and sent their inheritances into his mind.
• A Foundation Establishment Elder identified the seven scripts as Metal, Water, Fire, Earth, Hidden, Sword, and Forest, while Du Yuanhe admitted he had obtained Mirage Turtle Breath Concealment for Han Yuan.
• Feng Jianming said he would report Han Yuan’s situation to the Golden Core True Persons and possibly the Nascent Soul Ancestor, warning that everyone’s memories could be altered or erased.

Han Yuan received eight mastery-level Spirit Scripts and was recruited by Ancestor Ziyun as a Secret Legacy Disciple, while choosing to remain a True Disciple of Spirit Script Peak. After Ziyun altered the witnesses’ memories, Feng Jianming and Du Yuanhe questioned whether Han Yuan’s apparent lack of comprehension concealed a deeper mystery.

• Ancestor Ziyun arrived at the Spirit Script Ancient Stone Wall and ordered everyone present to undergo a memory modification.
• Ziyun offered Han Yuan Secret Legacy Disciple status, and Han Yuan accepted while choosing to remain a True Disciple so he could keep Cangming Cave Mansion.
• Ziyun enveloped the witnesses in purple mist, altered their memories, and returned them to the Spirit Script Peak Main Hall.
• After the others left, Feng Jianming told Du Yuanhe that Han Yuan had genuinely failed to comprehend the wall and suggested the spirit Apricot Tree might have caused Han Yuan’s breakthrough.
• Du Yuanhe was stunned by Feng Jianming’s theory, and Feng Jianming left, hoping his suspicion was wrong.

Han Yuan convinced Du Yuanhe that his Spirit Rain Technique remained at the entry level, disappointing the master who had hoped to recruit a Golden Core talent. When Ancestor Ziyun asked Han Yuan to demonstrate his full strength, a powerful Spirit Script boost unleashed a storm that exhausted him and revealed more than he had intended.

• Du Yuanhe questioned Han Yuan about his comprehension, and Han Yuan insisted that his Ancient Wood Nourishing Spirit Art breakthrough had been a coincidence and his Spirit Rain Technique was still at the entry level.
• Han Yuan cast a weak Spirit Rain Technique for Du Yuanhe, who realized he had misjudged Han Yuan and left disappointed.
• Ancestor Ziyun doubted whether Han Yuan was truly a comprehension genius and appeared to demand a full-strength demonstration of the Spirit Rain Technique.
• Han Yuan activated the Water Spirit Script, and a random buff multiplied its enhancement eightfold as he cast a storm over more than eight hundred mu.
• The spell drained Han Yuan's spiritual power and much of his Spiritual Sense before Ancestor Ziyun restored him and warned him to keep a low profile.
• Wangcai pounced on Han Yuan in the pond after Ancestor Ziyun departed.

Han Yuan set aside his newly acquired Spirit Scripts to cultivate and discovered that the Wood and Forest Spirit Scripts transformed his Ancient Wood Nourishing Spirit Art, greatly accelerating his progress. He gained control over nearby Wood-attribute Spiritual Energy and estimated that he could reach Qi Refining Sixth Layer Perfection in under a month, though he worried about the strain on his meridians.

• Han Yuan returned to Cangming Tower after telling Liu Sisi and Qin Feng that he would cultivate there, and asked them to give Chang Chun three months of True Disciple benefits when he arrived.
• Han Yuan flew close to the ground using an ability gained from Wangcai’s Contract Rune, which he recognized as a special Spirit Script.
• Han Yuan examined his Dantian and calculated that filling his spiritual power reserves at his current pace would take about ten months.
• Han Yuan activated the Wood and Forest Spirit Scripts while circulating the Ancient Wood Nourishing Spirit Art, raising it to the Perfection Level and doubling his cultivation speed.
• The Random Buff Multiplier enhanced the technique further, allowing Han Yuan to sense and command nearby Wood-attribute Spiritual Energy and potentially finish cultivating in less than a month.
• Han Yuan wondered whether his meridians could withstand cultivating so quickly.

Han Yuan cultivated cautiously, discovered new ways to benefit from his Random Buff Effect, and began using Qi Sword Slash to tend his Spirit Fields. After clearing the weeds, he advanced the spell to the Minor Accomplishment Realm in a single day.

• Han Yuan cultivated at four times his usual speed until his meridians and Spiritual Sense reached their limits, while Wangcai’s cultivation also improved.
• Han Yuan accepted a Pulse Protecting Pill from Chang Chun and tasked him with finding pills and treasures that could permanently improve aptitude, warning him to keep a low profile.
• Han Yuan decided to put Cangming Cave Mansion’s Spirit Fields to use and found Qin Feng weeding the remaining Yellow Millet Rice fields.
• Han Yuan cast Qi Sword Slash to clear weeds and noticed the Gold Spirit Script and Sword Spirit Script were improving his understanding of the spell.
• Han Yuan repeatedly cast Qi Sword Slash across the Thirty-Three Mu Spirit Fields and advanced it to the Minor Accomplishment Realm in one day.

Han Yuan discovered that sensing individual stalks of Yellow Millet Rice let him tailor the Constant Temperature Technique to their different needs, deepening his understanding of the Wood Spirit Script. As he advanced several farming spells, he realized that stacked Spirit Script blessings greatly accelerated comprehension and began wondering how they might affect his cultivation art.

• Han Yuan sensed that individual stalks of Yellow Millet Rice preferred slightly different temperatures and adjusted the Constant Temperature Technique to suit them.
• Han Yuan's insight into the Wood Spirit Script strengthened his Wood Spirit Heart, and he advanced the Constant Temperature Technique to Minor Accomplishment.
• Han Yuan found that the Earth Spirit Script accelerated his Soil Cultivation Technique more slowly than the earlier spell improvements, then suspected that multiple Spirit Script blessings multiplied together.
• Han Yuan's Wood and Forest Spirit Scripts helped him raise the Azure Spirit Technique to Minor Accomplishment after about a hundred casts.
• Han Yuan wondered how the Hidden, Wood, and Forest Spirit Scripts might accelerate his cultivation of the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art.

Han Yuan used stacked boosts and a breakthrough in understanding to advance his Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art to Perfection, becoming able to blend his presence into trees. After testing the concealment on Wangcai, he planned to ask Ancestor Ziyun about the benefits of being a Secret Legacy Disciple.

• Han Yuan decided to save his Pulse Protecting Pills for breakthrough attempts and turned to cultivating the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art.
• Han Yuan realized the art focused on blending with trees rather than merely hiding, and a Random Buff Multiplier of 9 greatly enhanced his cultivation.
• Han Yuan discarded his old Spell Imprint and cultivated a new one based on his corrected understanding, reaching Perfection by dawn.
• Han Yuan blended into the trees so completely that Wangcai mistook him for a tree until their contract connection helped it recognize him.
• Han Yuan caught Wangcai and decided to ask Ancestor Ziyun about the benefits of being a Secret Legacy Disciple.

Han Yuan perfected the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art, strengthening his concealment, then learned from Ancestor Ziyun that the Earth God Sect faced pressure from neighboring sects. Ancestor Ziyun explained that Secret Legacy Disciples could cultivate the sect’s deeper inheritance, and Han Yuan left feeling the sect might soon face a crisis.

• Han Yuan tested his improved concealment and overheard disciples keeping watch over Cangming Cave Mansion because he had become a True Disciple.
• Han Yuan reasoned that four True Disciples had died beyond the sect and resolved to hide his strength when traveling outside.
• Han Yuan met Ancestor Ziyun at the Scripture Repository and pressed him about the benefits of being a Secret Legacy Disciple.
• Ancestor Ziyun explained that the Earth God Sect had lost much of its territory and that nearby sects were showing signs of joining forces against it.
• Ancestor Ziyun revealed that Secret Legacy Disciples could learn the Earth God Sect’s true inheritances beyond the Nascent Soul realm, and Han Yuan grew alarmed about the threat to the sect.

Han Yuan received the Jianmu Immortal Codex inheritance and learned that Ancient Wood Peak had made him a Secret Legacy Disciple. Ancestor Ziyun took him to the Treasure Vault, where Han Yuan chose Purple Vine Wood Heart Fluid to improve his Wood Spiritual Root.

• Ancestor Ziyun explained that the Earth God Sect had seventeen Secret Legacy Disciple slots and gave Han Yuan the Inheritance Crystal for the Jianmu Immortal Codex.
• Han Yuan fused the crystal into his Sea of Consciousness and gained access to cultivation methods and spells that extended to the Primordial Spirit realm.
• Ancestor Ziyun assigned Han Yuan missions to perfect three Ancient Wood arts in exchange for treasures, then agreed to reward him for perfecting the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art.
• Ancestor Ziyun used the True Wood Illusion Technique to bring Han Yuan unseen to Ancient Wood Peak's Treasure Vault and warned him that the Inheritance Crystal could serve as its key.
• Ancestor Ziyun selected a bottle of Purple Vine Wood Heart Fluid for Han Yuan, which could gradually improve his Wood Spiritual Root.

Han Yuan secretly overheard the Liu Family discussing plans to ally Liu Sisi with him and benefit from his status as a True Disciple. He left with new suspicions about other families’ interest in him and returned to Cangming Cave Mansion to refine Purple Vine Wood Heart Fluid.

• Han Yuan used a willow tree to slip his Spiritual Sense through Liu Sisi’s Soundproofing Array and overheard her meeting with Liu Xinghe and an elder.
• The elder told Liu Xinghe to stop opposing Han Yuan and urged Liu Sisi to become his trusted aide, possibly even his Dao companion, so the Liu Family could cooperate with him.
• Liu Sisi agreed to try to become Han Yuan’s right-hand woman, partly because the family promised support for her mother.
• Liu Xinghe refused the elder’s suggestion and said he would pursue a Core Disciple position and attempt Foundation Establishment instead.
• Han Yuan noticed Di Qing’s request to meet and arranged to see him three days later.
• Han Yuan returned to Cangming Cave Mansion and prepared to refine Purple Vine Wood Heart Fluid.

Han Yuan used Purple Vine Wood Heart Fluid and his Random Buff Multiplier to transform his Wood Spiritual Root. He left the cultivation session with a newly achieved Top-grade Spiritual Root, though the final drop had no further effect.

• Han Yuan drank Purple Vine Wood Heart Fluid and sensed it entering his spine, revealing a Wood Spiritual Root with one complete large segment and three small segments of the next.
• Han Yuan’s Random Buff Multiplier boosted the first drop’s effect sevenfold, filling most of the fourth small segment and making Wood Spiritual Energy easier for him to perceive and control.
• Han Yuan continued consuming the fluid, and after ten drops he completed the second large segment of his Wood Spiritual Root, reaching the peak of the Mid-grade level.
• Han Yuan used a twenty-fourfold multiplier on the forty-eighth drop, sharply advancing his Spiritual Root as he continued through the remaining drops.
• Han Yuan’s ninety-ninth drop received a thirty-twofold multiplier and pushed his Spiritual Root into the Top-grade level, while the final drop had no effect.

After gaining a Supreme Wood Spirit Root, Han Yuan discovered that it enhanced his cultivation and Wood Attribute spells, then learned that his other Spiritual Roots had improved as well. He began his first cultivation session with his new roots, while Di Qing’s expected visit remained to be investigated.

• Han Yuan gained insight from observing weeds, and his spiritual power and Wood Spirit Heart grew stronger.
• Han Yuan recalled that Di Qing planned to visit in three days and asked Liu Sisi to investigate his motives.
• Wangcai burned a weed down to its roots, accidentally damaging nearby Spirit Rice, which Han Yuan restored with Azure Spirit Technique.
• Han Yuan found that his Wood Attribute spells had improved, including casting Azure Spirit Technique with a single thought.
• Han Yuan tested his Spiritual Roots and found his Wood Root was Top-grade, his Fire Root High-grade, his Earth Root Mid-grade, and his Water and Metal Roots near the peak of Low-grade.
• Han Yuan reminded himself that cultivation came first and began his first cultivation session after gaining the Supreme Wood Spirit Root.

Han Yuan used an amplified Pulse Protecting Pill to withstand the immense spiritual energy drawn by his Supreme Wood Spirit Root, then began cultivating the Ancient Wood Qi Recovery Art. He discovered how spirit plants siphoned energy from earth veins and formed five spiritual energy cycles, leaving him eager to reach greater mastery and wondering whether his multiplier could affect pills he refined.

• Han Yuan swallowed a Pulse Protecting Pill whose effect was multiplied thirteenfold, stabilizing his meridians as he absorbed far more spiritual energy than before.
• Han Yuan sensed spirit plants absorbing energy from the earth and releasing some back into the sky, then understood the Spiritual Siphon Effect described by the Ancient Wood Qi Recovery Art.
• Han Yuan cultivated the accompanying spell until it reached entry level and drew a strand of dense Earth Vein Spiritual Energy through the ground into his body.
• Han Yuan's Spiritual Sense consumption dropped tenfold as the Spiritual Siphon Effect formed, and he realized greater mastery could make his qi recovery much faster.
• Han Yuan rolled a five, drew five strands of Earth Vein Spiritual Energy into five cycles, and wondered whether his multiplier could enhance pills he refined.

Han Yuan reached Major Accomplishment in the Ancient Wood Qi Recovery Art, combining it with the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art to conceal its fluctuations and raise his Qi recovery speed to 150 times normal. After leaving Cangming Tower, he learned that the sect had changed the pill supply and that Chang Chun needed a mission exemption registered in person.

• Han Yuan combined the Ancient Wood Qi Recovery Art with the Ancient Wood Hidden Qi Art, concealing the disturbances from his cultivation while drawing Spiritual Energy from the Earth Vein.
• Han Yuan reached Major Accomplishment in the Qi Recovery Art and found that his stacked bonuses gave him 150 times the normal Qi recovery speed while gradually tempering his meridians.
• Han Yuan's cultivation rose to the peak of the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, though he chose to focus on cultivating the Qi Recovery Art instead of attempting a breakthrough.
• Wangcai asked Han Yuan to let it cultivate with him, and Han Yuan agreed.
• Chang Chun told Han Yuan that the Welfare Hall had reduced the Pulse Protecting Pill supply and that the Mission Hall required him to complete an Inner Sect mission soon.
• Han Yuan offered Chang Chun one of his mission-exempt disciple slots, but Chang Chun said Han Yuan had to register it personally at the Mission Hall.