Chapter Summaries

Li Ye uncovered the Hell Dao’s cruel scheme against Dawnlight Village and a disturbing memory involving his Four Seasons Sect senior brother, then left Other Shore City after the Garrison Envoy was bound to the Demon Suppression Tree. He returned to find the villagers safe beneath Jianmu’s protection and promised they could remain on their ancestral land.

• Li Ye extracted the Garrison Envoy’s memories and learned that the Hell Dao had tormented Dawnlight Village to force its people into Other Shore City.
• A hidden memory showed a figure in a Four Seasons Sect robe warning Li Ye that his senior brother’s malicious thought had to be severed for him to attain the Nascent Soul Dao.
• Li Ye left the Garrison Envoy trapped in the Demon Suppression Tree and learned that Old Jiang’s granddaughter had vanished after asking to find her grandfather.
• Li Ye let fellow cultivators claim Other Shore City’s treasures and discovered that Jianmu had taken root throughout Dawnlight Village.
• Li Ye offered to take the children and villagers away, but they chose to stay, and he promised the land would remain theirs.

Li Ye returned to the Four Seasons Sect with his master, learned more about Heart Power and the painted origins of Hell Dao, and watched Su Ya undergo his Golden Core tribulation. When Li Ye was unexpectedly struck by tribulation lightning too, he and Su Ya joined forces to refine the tribulation clouds into pills, earning the heavens’ rewards.

• Li Ye saw off the departing cultivators, then followed his master across a rainbow bridge toward the Eastern Domain and told him what he had learned from the memory bubbles.
• His master explained that the spaces of Hell Dao came from a painting called Hell's Transformation and that the patriarch had used Heart Power to give its nine Dao Lords spirituality.
• His master gave Li Ye a jade slip about the World-Nourishing Pill Method and Lesser Worlds, then brought him to watch Su Ya form his Golden Core at the sect’s tribulation valley.
• As Su Ya endured the Heavenly Tribulation using the lotus platform and refining materials, the Gla.s.s Bracelet on Li Ye’s wrist glowed and triggered a second tribulation for him.
• Li Ye and Su Ya worked together to draw the tribulation clouds into Su Ya’s Alchemy Furnace and refine them into Mystic Gold pills over seven days.
• After the furnace opened, the heavens sent tribulation rewards to both Su Ya and Li Ye, and Li Ye smiled at his dimming Gla.s.s Bracelet.

After returning from the tribulation, Li Ye sent Shuang Li back to the Southern Domain as an intelligence gatherer and inspected the Bamboo Wood Ants’ palace and Earth Sentiment Mycelia. The ant nest’s accumulated faith power produced a golden Mystic Mycelial God Fruit.

• The Golden Core True Persons surrounded Li Ye to ask about new spirit materials, and he required them to submit research plans according to sect rules before returning to his cave abode.
• Li Ye released Shuang Li and his other spirit beasts from the Jian Tree World, then bound Shuang Li to a Demon Suppression Tree and sent him to gather intelligence in the Southern Domain.
• Li Ye inspected his cave abode and found that the Bamboo Wood Ants had built a palace after studying architectural texts Spirit Vine provided.
• Li Ye entered the ant nest’s mycelial temple and merged the Earth Sentiment Mycelia’s original body with the cultivated mycelia.
• The Bamboo Wood Ants worshipped as their collected faith power flowed into the mycelia, which produced a translucent Mystic Mycelial God Fruit.

Li Ye learned that Jianmu was incomplete and received a new sect duty, then discovered Dao Patterns in the Beavers’ dike. He asked the Beavers to help him after realizing their naturally formed patterns might be useful.

• Li Ye accepted the Mycelial God Fruit and instructed the Spirit Vine to gather materials for a Starfall Lamp for the Bamboo Wood Ants.
• Jianmu told Li Ye that he was incomplete, explained the connection to the Bronze Divine Tree on Sword Mountain, and gave him a command token assigning him duties at Eastern Peak and Returning Shore Markets.
• Jianmu asked Li Ye to return before reaching Nascent Soul so he could meet Jianmu’s younger sister at Sky Vein Sword Mountain.
• Li Ye rested in his courtyard and noticed that the Beavers’ dike resisted the force of their water spells.
• Li Ye found Dao Patterns woven into the dike and its structure, then asked the Beavers to help him investigate their natural talent.

Li Ye brought the Beavers to Weichuan to help with the annual floods and earn Void Star Sand, where Perfected Person Lu proposed researching how water-element Turtle Spirit Gourds could power a formation. After Li Ye wondered about the reincarnation of spirit beasts and chose to move forward rather than dwell on the past, he helped establish a fortune-enhancing formation on the riverbank, drawing the attention of cultivators and several True Persons.

• Li Ye brought five Beavers to Weichuan during flood season so they could help build dams and earn rewards, including Void Star Sand.
• Perfected Person Lu gave Li Ye a proposal for studying water-element Turtle Spirit Gourds in formations, and explained how their fortune could enhance formation work and water-element cultivation.
• Li Ye asked where the soul essences of spirit beasts came from and went after death; Perfected Person Lu said they passed through Peach Capital, leaving Li Ye wondering about his body's original owner before he resolved to move forward.
• Li Ye suggested building a formation at Weichuan to help regulate the river, then worked with Perfected Person Lu and other disciples to plant Turtle Spirit Gourds and inscribe Formation Patterns with Aura of Golden Fortune.
• Cultivators and True Persons arrived to watch the formation, while Perfected Person Su Yu accused Perfected Person Lu of trying to recruit Li Ye and Perfected Person Bai Shi became fascinated by the Beavers' woodwork.

Li Ye demonstrated the completed Water Turtle Formation to the sect’s Perfected Persons, while a mischievous Beaver caused a brief commotion. He discovered that the carefree cultivator who tested the formation was his long-unseen Third Senior Brother, Chen, who invited him to visit Green Hill Spirit Mountain.

• Perfected Person Bo Shi offered to teach the Beavers artifact refinement, and Li Ye welcomed the idea.
• Li Ye showed the Perfected Persons the formation, where the Beavers built unusually effective dams that improved Weichuan’s water.
• Chen tested the formation with a Golden Core Beaver, which built a remarkable dam before teasing Li Ye’s Beavers into a water-ball fight.
• Li Ye recognized Chen as his Third Senior Brother and asked why he and the Fourth Senior Brother had been absent for so long.
• Chen invited Li Ye to Green Hill Spirit Mountain and showed him a bell adorned with more than thirty fox tails given to him by his acquaintances.

Li Ye sparred with Senior Brother Chen beside Weichuan, learned about battle spirit plants, and received his senior brother’s recommendation to seek the Three-Jewel Tree. The chapter ended as Li Ye’s Beavers completed a dam in the river’s strongest current and black resentment rose from the water.

• Senior Brother Chen praised Li Ye’s formation work, then asked him to unleash his full strength so he could assess Li Ye’s spiritual power.
• Li Ye’s five-colored attack overwhelmed Senior Brother Chen’s battle spirit plants, but Chen dispersed it with his Yin Yang Banana Leaf Fan.
• Senior Brother Chen explained how a suppressing object could command battle spirit plants and recommended the Three-Jewel Tree in the Crimson Water Kunlun Ruins for Li Ye.
• Li Ye and Senior Brother Chen returned the riverbank to normal and walked back while discussing the Three-Jewel Tree and Li Ye’s affinity with spirit plants.
• Li Ye’s Beavers drove their dam into the turbulent center of Weichuan, where black resentment suddenly rose from the river.

Li Ye and the beavers uncovered a river of petroleum grease beneath Weichuan and discovered that burning it with the Harmonious Spirit Lotus created a powerful Lotus Lantern. The lantern rejected Li Ye and revealed that it could only bind to a specific beaver born in Weichuan who had learned the Lotus Heart-Saving Sutra.

• Li Ye concluded that Weichuan itself was producing resentment and agreed to investigate with Third Senior Brother and the True Persons.
• Li Ye directed the junior disciples and their beavers to connect the river dikes, then used his five beavers to draw the resentment out of Weichuan.
• The exposed black, fragrant liquid proved to be petroleum grease, and a beaver ignited some of it with its lotus throne.
• Li Ye returned to his cave abode with the Turtle Spirit Gourds and beavers, who covered the Earthfiend Ginseng's Harmonious Spirit Lotus in petroleum grease and set it alight.
• The beavers pulled a Precious Lotus Lantern from the lotus and wielded its holy flames, but the lantern became ordinary when Li Ye took it.
• Li Ye's panel identified the lantern's strict binding requirements, including a beaver born in Weichuan that had learned the Lotus Heart-Saving Sutra.

Li Ye bound the Precious Lotus Lantern and watched Beaver use it to purify five hundred li of Weichuan, earning the Beavers gratitude from the river deity. Weichuan explained the lantern’s history and offered Li Ye a fifth-tier water vein, but he declined as the Golden Core True Persons approached.

• Li Ye spent one point of Vital Essence to bind the Precious Lotus Lantern, then nourished the lotus and Earthfiend Ginseng before letting them sleep.
• Beaver raised the lantern over Weichuan and caused the Petroleum Grease river to burn, illuminating five hundred li and soothing the cultivators who had helped build the dam.
• Weichuan told Li Ye that his martial ancestor had left a damaged Precious Lotus Lantern at the river’s source, and that the Earth Wish Spirit Foxes carried its wick power.
• Li Ye proposed extracting the wick power from a captured Earth Wish Spirit Fox, and Weichuan said he could discuss it with his master when he returned.
• Weichuan asked the Beavers to help purify ten thousand li of tributaries and offered Li Ye a fifth-tier water vein, but he refused the reward and carried the exhausted Beaver.
• Weichuan blessed Li Ye and withdrew as the Golden Core True Persons approached, aware that he had purified the resentment flowing from Weichuan.

Li Ye spent half a year learning from more than a hundred Golden Core True Persons and reviewing their applications for his spirit crops, then decided to inspect their markets before agreeing to anything. He left exhausted but saw that the beavers had transformed Weichuan into a clear, thriving kingdom of dams, and they rushed to greet him.

• Li Ye arranged for the beavers to purify Weichuan’s resentment, exchanged Petroleum Grease for four more Precious Lotus Lanterns, and instructed the beavers to build dams and draw out the resentment.
• True Person Su Yu and the other Golden Core True Persons brought Li Ye up Mustard-Seed Formation Mountain and had him study their research applications and receive instruction across several disciplines.
• Over half a year, Li Ye resolved the applications of more than a hundred True Persons, then asked to inspect proposed sites before deciding whether to introduce his crops.
• Perfected Person Du explained that his clan’s Dongyang Market profits barely covered food for three markets, so Li Ye requested the applications from the other True Persons as well.
• Third Senior Brother showed Li Ye how the beavers’ dams had cleared and organized Weichuan, and five beavers carrying Precious Lotus Lanterns flew over to nuzzle him.

Li Ye entered Weichuan and comprehended a water-based divine ability, creating Five-Colored Leaf Water Lilies from his Divine Sense and treasured materials to help regulate the river. His actions triggered a Heavenly Tribulation that Weichuan fought off, while the Gla.s.s Bracelet began pulling him toward the surface.

• Li Ye swam into Weichuan's deeper waters and discovered that its currents could stretch and temper his Divine Sense.
• The Micro-Stream River Deity offered Li Ye a chance to comprehend a divine ability, and he chose to understand the Beavers' power of calming the waters through letting go.
• Li Ye turned threads of Divine Sense, Jianmu spirituality, Golden Core vitality, a bead from his Gla.s.s Bracelet, and his Five-Colored Stone into lotus-bearing beans that helped regulate Weichuan.
• A Heavenly Tribulation descended, and Weichuan shattered its lightning to protect Li Ye and the life in its waters.
• Li Ye discovered that his Five-Colored Leaf Water Lily had been targeted by Spirit-Annihilating Purple Lightning, and his trembling Gla.s.s Bracelet began tugging him toward the surface.

Li Ye’s act of creating the Five-Colored Leaf Water Lily drew the Heavenly Dao’s attention, repaired his bracelet with Guiding Divine Light, and helped him understand that sincere deeds counted even when he had mixed motives. Back at his cave abode, he learned that the Gold Sand Crow had laid unusual eggs that needed flying spirit plants to carry them.

• Li Ye touched the lightning drawn by the Heavenly Dao, then let eighty-one bolts repair the missing bead on his Gla.s.s Bracelet and form a Guiding Divine Pearl.
• The Micro-Stream River Deity explained that the pearl recognized Li Ye’s Dao, and she urged him to accept that good deeds could coexist with desires for reward.
• Li Ye reflected on Ancestor Weichuan’s words, accepted the value of doing good despite mixed motives, and felt his Golden Core’s light nourish Jianmu and its inhabitants.
• The Beaver teased Li Ye, who laughed and carried it back to his cave abode.
• Zhao He and Jiang Tingchao told Li Ye that the Gold Sand Crow had laid eggs, and he found golden Culinary Gold Crow Eggs that needed flying spirit plants to carry them.

Li Ye examined the Gold Sand Crow’s eggs, then rested while the Four Seasons Sect marketed his spirit plants and spirit beasts to competing sects. When Yang Ke visited, Li Ye recognized the new status barrier between them and invited him to share tea and discuss the Dao.

• Li Ye found that the Gold Sand Crow’s eggs absorbed sunlight and changed color when touched, then told his attendants to care for them and notify him before they hatched.
• Li Ye sent Ruo Spring water to Yang Ke through the sect’s channels and fell into a deep sleep after months of study.
• The Four Seasons Sect promoted Li Ye’s products, drawing True Persons from several sects who competed and fought over purchases and contracts.
• Wei Canyang boasted of his connection to Li Ye and served Dawnlight Rice, while True Person Lin ate the entire pot and tried to place a large order.
• Bitter Journey Academy and Void Aspect Temple bid against each other for Dawnlight Rice, and True Person Chen proposed auctioning the rights to each year’s limited harvest.
• True Person Chen brought Yang Ke to Li Ye, who noticed Yang Ke’s nervous deference and invited him to tea with Senior Brother Su.

Li Ye learned that Yang Ke’s cultivation had been halted by the Moon Soul Terror Curse, but Yang Ke avoided discussing a cure and instead completed a deal for Ruo Spring water. The chapter ended as the Beavers served food and Third Senior Brother recognized the Voidsky Grass growing on their heads as a spatial treasure.

• Li Ye told Su Ya about Yang Ke’s sudden distance, and they suspected he had suffered an injury preventing him from forming a Golden Core.
• Yang Ke revealed that the Moon Soul Terror Curse had fixed his cultivation and that the curse was tied to the Heavenly Dao, with no known way to lift it.
• Li Ye offered Yang Ke one thousand jin of Ruo Spring water per month, and Yang Ke paid one hundred thousand Spirit Stones under their trade agreement.
• Su Ya offered to remain Yang Ke’s friend, while Li Ye resolved to repay Yang Ke’s past kindness without forcing him to accept help.
• The Beavers served refreshments, and Third Senior Brother discovered that the grass on their heads was Voidsky Grass.

Li Ye arranged to build a Sea Spirit Ground and used Voidsky Grass to experiment on a Sunken Sea Clam, after discovering that the Moon Soul Terror Curse appeared to purify merfolk bloodlines. The clam sealed itself after Li Ye replaced its accumulated spiritual crystals with Voidsky Stones, leaving him to watch what the experiment produced.

• Li Ye declined Yang Ke’s request to cultivate spirit beasts for his tribe and instead bought Sunken Sea Clams and other sea creatures to raise himself.
• Li Ye’s companions left after discussing Yang Ke, and Li Ye began analyzing a cursed drop of blood with Jianmu, discovering the Moon Soul Terror Curse was linked to purifying merfolk bloodlines.
• Li Ye postponed investigating the bloodline discovery until he could consult his master and instructed the Spirit Vine to prepare a Sea Spirit Ground.
• The Spirit Vine completed the Sea Spirit Ground, and Li Ye found that its hundred-mu sea was a spatially enclosed area with a formation on its seabed.
• Li Ye bound Voidsky Grass to a Sunken Sea Clam and fed it eighty-one Voidsky Stones, prompting the clam to close its shell and block outside spiritual power and Divine Sense.

Li Ye explored the Sea Spirit Ground, tested Sword Pillar Fish, and bound a Golden Sea-Floating Stone to an Abyssal Sea Clear Scale Leaf. The binding caused an abnormal transformation, and the newly formed creature attacked Li Ye as he relaxed in a seabed pavilion.

• Li Ye observed a Sunken Sea Clam using waves to cultivate a silver-gray pearl from Voidsky Grass.
• Li Ye tested a school of Sword Pillar Fish and used them to unleash Golden Core-level Sword Qi.
• Li Ye bound a Golden Sea-Floating Stone to an Abyssal Sea Clear Scale Leaf to investigate the World-Nurturing Elixir Method.
• The Beavers built Li Ye a pavilion and served him food and tea while the bound pair underwent an abnormal symbiosis.
• The Golden Sea-Floating Stone transformed into a massive yellow flood-dragon-like creature, drained the surrounding spiritual energy, and exploded a turbid current toward Li Ye.

Li Ye investigated the mutated Golden Sea-Floating Stone and finished modifying the spirit plants and beasts in the Sea Spirit Ground. He then visited Bai Shunfeng, whose life-draining medicine could protect generations from wind-cold illness, and offered to recommend him for a Divine Seat if he continued living and treating patients fully.

• The Precious Lotus Lantern suppressed the Golden Sea-Floating Stone's explosion, giving it spirituality and revealing that it had self-destructed to spread its rebellious scale.
• Li Ye bound the Golden Sea-Floating Stone with a restraining chain and ordered it to produce explosive stones, then had the Spirit Vine take a sample to Ye Hall.
• Li Ye bound Voidsky Grass to the Azure Sea Coral Spirit Worms, left Void-Sky Mineral Stones for them, and entrusted the Spirit Vine with monitoring them.
• Bai Shunfeng invited Li Ye to his clinic and showed him medicine made with his inner core's spiritual power to prevent wind-cold illness for generations.
• Bai Shunfeng explained that he intended to sacrifice his inner core to extend the medicine's effects, and Li Ye urged him to live and offered to recommend him for a Divine Seat if he stopped withholding treatment.

Li Ye visited the lakeside settlement with Bai Shunfeng, quietly helped its fishermen, and granted Bai Shunfeng a Divine Seat under the mysterious deity Compassionate Embrace. He then went to see Third Senior Brother, who welcomed him with wine and showed him the demons imprisoned beneath his cave abode.

• Li Ye agreed to help Bai Shunfeng and took him to the lake to see the fishermen and test his spirit medicine.
• Li Ye secretly caused fish to swarm toward the settlement, and Hong Ying received Bai Shunfeng's medicine and instructions while the fishermen celebrated.
• Li Ye told Bai Shunfeng he wanted lasting ways to improve mortal life, then brought him to the God Conferral Hall to bestow a Divine Seat.
• Compassionate Embrace granted Bai Shunfeng a Divine Mark and transformed his power, while Li Ye gained twenty thousand points from the deity's vitality.
• Li Ye sent Bai Shunfeng to seek sect resources and went to Third Senior Brother's cave abode, where Third Senior Brother showed him a sea abyss holding several thousand demons and offered him Dang Kang wine.

Li Ye and Third Senior Brother drank Dangkang Spirit Wine until they slept for seven days, after which Su Xing Zhenren told them that Li Ye’s Golden Core trial would take place near East Cang Town, where the sect planned to confront Hell Dao. He brought Li Ye to a grotto-heaven to teach him the Four Seasons Music Canon’s rain-and-snow abilities, and Li Ye began to summon rain with the Xiang Yun Qin.

• Li Ye and Third Senior Brother drank jar after jar of Dangkang Spirit Wine and fell asleep amid a surge of spiritual-power fire.
• Su Xing Zhenren learned that Compassionate Embrace had granted a Divine Seat to a hedgehog Li Ye helped, and he connected the event to sending Li Ye to East Cang Town.
• After Li Ye and Third Senior Brother awoke seven days later, Su Xing Zhenren assigned Li Ye’s Golden Core trial to East Cang Town and explained that a Hell Dao entrance lay nearby.
• Su Xing Zhenren told Li Ye and Third Senior Brother that the sect would use East Cang Market and the Netherworld Market to pursue Hell Dao, drawing on information from a captured Garrison Envoy.
• Su Xing Zhenren took Li Ye to a chaotic grotto-heaven and gave him the Xiang Yun Qin and Cheng Han Xiao to learn the Four Seasons Music Canon’s rain-and-snow abilities.
• Li Ye plucked the Xiang Yun Qin and produced five-colored rain over the area around him.

Li Ye completed his study of the Four Seasons instruments and accepted the sect mission to build East Cang Market and Netherworld Market at the ruins of East Cang Town. He arrived with Third Senior Brother and Ying Ying, where the town’s lifeless, seasonless condition revealed that the mission would be more complicated than expected.

• Li Ye’s qin music formed a rainy space where he slept for thirty days, then he explained his unusual comprehension to True Person Su Xing and learned the remaining seasonal instruments.
• True Person Su Xing formally gave Li Ye the recorded mission to construct East Cang Market and Netherworld Market at East Cang Town.
• Third Senior Brother selected Spirit Race members, including juniors from the Ying Long Clan and Kaiming Clan, to assist Li Ye, and they collected Earth Spirit Breath Soil from the treasure vault.
• Li Ye and Third Senior Brother traveled to East Cang Town, where black qi, snow in the heat, and the absence of vitality showed that the ruins had grown far more desolate in two months.
• Ying Ying of the Ying Long Clan arrived, greeted Li Ye, and privately asked Chen Mo whether his Junior Brother had a Dao companion.