Recaps

Li Ye turned East Cang Town into a flourishing market, built a spiritual granary that connected mortal life with the divine, and gathered new allies and inheritances. The arc left him preparing to recover the Flint Crystal Worms’ lost true spirits from Du Su Mountain.

• Li Ye rescued the wounded Yangs Sha, absorbed Calamity Ash into a new Lesser World, and used its Calamity Fire to defeat a Cloud Diviner Sect elder before helping restore East Cang Town.
• Li Ye developed tribulation-bearing Five-Colored Leaf Water Lilies, helped establish Netherworld Market, and learned the house-building art Lady Xiang to provide homes for the town’s settlers.
• Li Ye brought Wei Qingye to the Ink-Wash World to make a body for his junior brother’s Soul Essence, then used the Xiang River Abode to withstand the resulting tribulation and create Heart Soil.
• Li Ye welcomed Earth Tremor Worms and the Ant Clan to East Cang Market, accepted the Ant Clan’s Earth Book page, and helped awaken Perfected Person Miao Du, who gave him her complete Earth Book Method.
• Li Ye hosted the East Cang Auction, sold market shops and Yam-Dragon rights, and contracted with Poverty Observation Mountain to study the Bagua Spirit Turtle’s seal in exchange for Calamity Ash and calamity qi.
• Li Ye realized that a granary could link mortals and gods, created the Carefree Granary by grafting the Five Grains onto Carefree Spirit City, and brought it to East Cang Town to feed and heal its residents.
• The Five Grains became the Earth Book’s first deities, while Li Ye discovered that Wen’s Ink Wash Gold Sand Body had formed and learned that Yun Ming had unlocked the turtle’s Kun trigram for him.
• Li Ye helped the Flint Crystal Worms and Silver Moon Grass survive tribulations and form Demon Cores, then learned that two worms’ true spirits had gone to Du Su Mountain and resolved to find a way to bring them back.

Li Ye restored Bitter Journey Academy’s contaminated grotto-heavens, advanced his spirit gardens and workshop, and uncovered threats tied to the Southern Domain and the Five-Colored Flowers. After ten years passed while he was away, he reunited Wen with his family and reached East Cang Town, where Old Master Chou rose from his coffin.

• Li Ye purified the ink-wash grotto-heaven, helped Bitter Journey Academy awaken mushrooms and brew Bitter Calamity Wine, and cultivated a Tribulation Fire Spirit named Ming Zhao.
• Li Ye expanded his Lesser World and transformed the Wenxing Bamboo into a Big Dipper Star Spring, then negotiated cooperation between Bitter Journey Academy and the Four Seasons Sect.
• Li Ye raised a Dew-Bearing Magnolia Tree into the immortal Li Yulan, rebuilt its spirit ground, and used the Jade Rabbits and Gold-Hilted Silver Axe Spirits to restore damaged plants and beasts.
• Li Ye accepted Zhao He as his disciple and developed a Worry-Free Artifact Forging Spirit Farm, while preparing an alchemy spirit farm and helping Can Ling with her natal treasure.
• Li Ye sent the Giant Lake Otters to resolve the imbalance at Dongyang Market, then learned from Shuang Li that the Demon Race sought the Four Seasons Sect’s formation and Five-Colored Flower.
• Li Ye learned that Five-Colored Flowers repaired gaps in the sky at the cost of their grotto-heavens, and Second Senior Brother sealed the realm until Li Ye reached Nascent Soul, and Li Ye returned to find ten years had passed.
• Li Ye reunited Wen with the White Fox and their children, then traveled with Wei Qingye and them to East Cang Town, where Compassionate Embrace revived Old Master Chou as Li Ye and Wei Qingye prepared to confront him.

Li Ye contained the corruption in East Cang Town, then entered the Suike Realm and helped end its eternal winter by guiding the doomed Heavenly Dao into destruction. Back in the Dao Flourishing Realm, he joined Spirit Flourishing Hall, passed its assessment, and began trading for spirit patterns before Su Bing'er revealed Su Huan’s crisis.

• Li Ye used Jianmu’s power to contain Old Master Chou and the corruption in East Cang Town, then swallowed Senior Brother’s incarnation and helped restore the town’s earth-vein formation.
• Senior Brother explained his ties to Hell Dao and the patriarch, and Li Ye bound him with Heartfelt Melody while Wen and the Little Iron Pot Tai Sui began a new life together.
• Li Ye entered the Suike Realm to endure winter, gathered Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks and other allies, and used Phoenix Fire and an Earth Book fragment to protect the village and its people.
• After the Suike Realm became cut off and its sun fell, Li Ye helped the youthful child of Fortune carry Calamity Fire into the Heavenly Dao, ending the corrupted world and reshaping it into a spirit-rich wilderness.
• Li Ye returned home, planted seeds in Chaos Soil, and entered Spirit Flourishing Hall, where the Heaven-Bearing willow patriarch admitted him to study spirit patterns.
• Li Ye passed the assessment by awakening a Glass Snow Lotus and bonding with an Azure Bird, while the senior sister’s dangerous Starfall Epiphyllum killed several Golden Core figures.
• Li Ye and the other successful candidates mined Heaven’s Question Stone and built a path into chaos, where his Tribulation Fire Spirit cleared the Chaos Mist and exposed many treasures.
• Li Ye traded Chaos treasures for spirit patterns, and Su Bing'er revealed that Su Huan’s Nascent Soul had merged with the Earth Vein Spirit Willow and asked Li Ye to intervene.

Li Ye expanded his Lesser World, cured Li Rui and Yang Ke, and helped Wangshu end the Merfolk Clan’s ancient grievance. After aiding Su Huan’s evanescence and restoring Ruoquan Island, he established a dragon-raising sea domain and began arranging its development and leases.

• Li Ye entered Chaos, advanced to the middle stage of the golden core realm, and brought back an Azure Lotus that nurtured nine Lesser Worlds when fed Weichuan’s Origin Water.
• Li Ye cured Li Rui’s Moon Soul Terror Curse, accepted Wangshu’s role as her temple priest, and healed Yang Ke before helping him and the merfolk reconcile with Wangshu.
• Li Ye planted the Flying Light Azure Lotus in the Turbid Vein, learned the Ruo Tree ability Swallow Sun, Receive Pregnancy, and helped Su Huan merge with the Earth Vein Spirit Willow through evanescence.
• Li Ye restored Ruoquan Island and opened it to cultivators seeking the Ruo Tree’s restful spiritual energy, while Pearl Bodhisattva Son traded him the Marvelous Dragon Transformation Method.
• Li Ye used the Dragon Transformation Pool to transform spirit beasts and plants, and Ao Kong supplied Dragon Blood and recruited dragons to help the process.
• Li Ye stopped the transformations after Wangshu warned of heavenly punishment, and Spring Radiance Daoist named the surrounding territory the Spirit Leaf Sea Domain.
• Li Ye assigned dragons and Beavers to develop the domain, promised the Yam-Dragons a home, and discovered an old acquaintance beneath a spirit vein.
• Li Ye leased cultivation grounds to visiting sects and supplied Ci Zhu with grain while refusing to share Sweet Potato Dragon scale powder without sect approval.