Chapter Summaries

Li Ye, Ying Ying, and Third Senior Brother investigated East Cang Town, where they discovered a Cloud Mica Scorpion sent by the Cloud Diviner Sect to find Calamity Ash. Following it through a strange field of Night Bloom Flowers, they found a wounded Yangs Sha created by Hell Dao, and Li Ye tried to stop his companions from attacking it.

• Ying Ying revealed that Yangs Sha had appeared in East Cang Town, so Li Ye and Third Senior Brother joined her to investigate.
• Li Ye caught a Cloud Mica Scorpion that had been spying on them and learned that the Cloud Diviner Sect had sent it to search for Calamity Ash.
• Third Senior Brother planned to confront the Cloud Diviner Sect after the group finished their investigation, and the scorpion led them onward.
• The group entered a spreading field of Night Bloom Flowers and continued deeper despite suspecting they might be walking into a trap.
• Li Ye, Ying Ying, and Third Senior Brother found a wounded Yangs Sha absorbing gray mist from a deep pit, and Li Ye recognized that Hell Dao had created it from the resentment of East Cang Town's dead.
• Third Senior Brother and Ying Ying attacked the Yangs Sha while it was healing, and Li Ye shouted for them to stop.

Li Ye entered the pit to save the Killing Intent-corrupted Yangs Sha, but Hell Dao’s trap ignited the Calamity Ash into Calamity Fire. He used the fire to unseal a Small Thousand World Seed and establish a Lesser World, then opened his eyes to find tribulation clouds gathering overhead.

• Li Ye stopped Third Senior Brother and Ying Ying from attacking the Yangs Sha, and Li Yuan arrived to shield them from its arrows.
• Li Ye warned Li Yuan that his killing had scattered his Clear Spirit Qi, then descended alone to transfer the Yangs Sha’s Killing Intent into Jianmu.
• The Calamity Ash erupted around Li Ye and ignited into Calamity Fire, which he guided into the Small Thousand World Seed through the Heartfelt Melody.
• Li Ye bound the seed to his Sun-Moon Rings and nourished it with his Golden Core, forming a Lesser World that the Calamity Fire burned down to a small patch of land.
• Li Ye completed the Lesser World’s formation, opened his eyes, and saw tribulation clouds gathering above him.

Li Ye endured the Fated Light Earth Tribulation, then discovered that Yangs Sha had brought him to a hidden Jade Dragon Spirit Vein and delivered a message from Senior Brother. After Li Ye freed the vein from tribulation fire, his tribulation’s power caused jade flowers to bloom across East Cang Town.

• Li Ye drew the Fated Light Earth Tribulation onto himself and resisted its bolts with merit light and a sword made from Sky Vein Sword Mountain’s merit.
• Feng Yue and a woman in red arrived as Li Ye’s companions watched, but Li Ye, Yangs Sha, and the Cloud Mica Scorpion vanished when the tribulation clouds dispersed.
• Yangs Sha revealed his human form and explained that Senior Brother had sent Li Ye a token and Calamity Ash from the Hell Dao, asking him not to tell his master.
• Li Ye accepted Yangs Sha as a companion and drew the tribulation fire away from the Jade Dragon Spirit Vein, allowing its spiritual power to flow freely.
• Li Ye activated the earth-yellow bead formed from his tribulation, and jade flowers grew across the barren land of East Cang Town.

Li Ye and the Four Seasons Sect uncovered the Cloud Diviner Sect’s collusion with the Hell Dao and set out to destroy it. At the sect’s mountain gate, Li Ye killed a Nascent Soul cultivator with Calamity Fire and planted his remains in the Demon Suppression Tree, then collapsed as his aura faded.

• Feng Yue offered Li Ye impure Dangkang helpers, but Li Ye refused and demonstrated how the Life Jade Flowers transmitted spiritual power without loss.
• The Cloud Mica Scorpion revealed the Cloud Diviner Sect’s ties to the Hell Dao, prompting the group to cross into the Northern Domain and march on the sect.
• At a Forging Spirit Sect outpost, Duan Jiurui confirmed that the sect had subdued the Cloud Diviner Sect and offered support while avoiding Third Senior Brother Chen Mo’s question about other Hell Dao collaborators.
• The Four Seasons Sect confronted the Cloud Diviner Sect’s two Nascent Soul elders, and Li Yuan attacked one while Li Ye faced the other.
• Li Ye engulfed the Nascent Soul elder in Calamity Fire; after the elder exploded, Li Ye planted a Demon Suppression Tree seed in his remains, then fell as his aura weakened.

After Li Ye used Calamity Fire to kill a Nascent Soul cultivator, Chen Mo carried the unconscious Li Ye to East Cang Town to recover. While Li Ye slept, his Earth Spirit Breath Soil transformed the land and helped Xuan Houyan rapidly build a vast market foundation.

• Li Ye exhausted his merit and fortune using Calamity Fire, and Third Senior Brother carried him away while Yan Sihuo, Ying Ying, and Feng Yue began suppressing Cloud Diviner Sect's remaining cultivators and spirit beasts.
• Jin Yexing, a Brocade Fur Rat, offered Chen Mo a silver-furred rat to serve Li Ye because of Li Ye's powerful fortune, then left to pursue a clan traitor.
• Chen Mo brought Li Ye to East Cang Town, where Yangs Sha used the Life Jade Flower and Xuan Houyan's preparations to help him recover underground.
• While Li Ye remained unconscious, Jianmu spread the Earth Spirit Breath Soil through the land, creating flowing water, enriching the earth, and laying out spatial formations.
• Xuan Houyan rushed to adapt his market-building formations to the expanding terrain, and Chen Mo supplied the materials he demanded.
• When the others returned with Duan Jiurui, they found the market foundation already stretched across tens of thousands of miles, with Chen Mo and Xuan Houyan exhausted.

Li Ye negotiated with the Forging Spirit Sect over trade and plans for East Cang Market, then helped Li Yuan suppress an eruption of resentment and Baleful Intent. As the group organized the market’s industries and residents, Li Ye discovered an underground source that appeared to produce Calamity Ash endlessly.

• Duan Jiurui offered Li Ye a spatial jade token as an apology and sought access to his resources, especially Yam-Dragons, which he agreed to consider if the local environment suited their cultivation.
• Li Ye warned Li Yuan that the Nascent Soul’s Killing Intent and cultivators’ resentment were about to erupt, and the Beaver used the Lotus Lantern to suppress the flames consuming him.
• Li Yuan thanked Li Ye, and the other cultivators offered to help build East Cang Market and its formations.
• Li Ye learned that East Cang Town had relied on Jade Aroma Melons and decided to cultivate them as a pillar industry, while promising Yangs Sha that he would remain to care for the town and the reincarnated Soul Essences.
• A Brocade Fur Rat reminded Li Ye about the unused Calamity Ash and opened a spatial gateway, revealing a cave with a golden bronze cauldron that appeared to produce Calamity Ash continuously.

Li Ye used Calamity Ash to cultivate Five-Colored Leaf Water Lilies that could produce controlled tribulations, then tested them on his companions. After completing his experiments, he returned to the sect and encountered the Heavenly Sound Thunder God.

• Li Ye sealed the bronze cauldron that produced Calamity Ash and decided to use the ash to cultivate a special spirit plant.
• Over two years, Li Ye developed a field of Five-Colored Leaf Water Lilies, using Calamity Ash, Tribulation Qi, Water Spirits, and Lotus Lantern pearls to create controllable tribulations.
• Li Ye left Chen Mo and the others to watch the field, and a Water Spirit pulled Ying Ying into a small Lightning Tribulation that rewarded her with pure spiritual energy.
• The Calamity Ash began to reignite, and the others tried to suppress it while being dragged into tribulations by the lotuses; Li Ye observed and recorded the results from hiding.
• Li Ye judged the cultivation experiment successful and returned to the sect, where he saw branches of the Heavenly Sound Thunder Tree spread across the sky.

Li Ye defended his calamity-qi lotuses to the Heavenly Sound Thunder God, then learned his reward would be the Nine Songs chapter Lady Xiang. As rival clans sought the lotuses for their tribulations, Li Ye revealed that Netherworld Market was already beginning to grow from Spring Bloom Autumn Peach branches and spirit creatures.

• The Heavenly Sound Thunder God warned Li Ye that using the lotuses to help others cross tribulations could bring karmic consequences, but accepted Li Ye’s reasoning and took the jade slip for the sect.
• The Heavenly Sound Thunder God offered Li Ye a reward, and Li Ye learned he would receive the Nine Songs chapter Lady Xiang.
• Li Ye returned to the formation, where Chen Mo and the others reported that they had suppressed the Calamity Ash but used up the lotuses’ calamity qi.
• Li Yuan asked to buy the lotuses for the Kaiming Clan, and the other cultivators also showed interest after Li Ye named a price of three hundred thousand Spirit Stones per use.
• The Four Seasons Sect sent Li Ye its approved Netherworld Market blueprint, and Li Ye revealed he planned to use Spring Bloom Autumn Peach alongside willow trees and locust trees.
• Xuan Houyan saw peach trees and spirit creatures sprouting around East Cang Market, forming the first outlines of Netherworld Market.

Li Ye helped complete Netherworld Market, then traveled in disguise with his master, Su Xing Zhenren, among the mortal settlers bound for East Cang Market. Su Xing gave him the divine ability "Nine Songs: Lady Xiang" to study, and Li Ye discovered that one of its arts could build houses at the cost of enormous spiritual energy.

• Li Ye arranged for Locust Spirit Couriers and willow spirits to serve as Netherworld Market attendants, while Chen Mo explained which mortals and families would settle there.
• After Li Ye left the finishing work to the others, Netherworld Market was completed three months later, but he had vanished.
• Li Ye joined the mortal convoy to East Cang Market in coarse clothes, and Su Xing Zhenren explained that he should learn about mortal life and a divine ability he would soon need.
• Su Xing gave Li Ye the ancient book "Nine Songs: Lady Xiang," whose tale of worshipers and the unreachable Goddess of the Xiang River left Li Ye sorrowful.
• Li Ye realized that "Lady Xiang" contained an art for building houses, shaped a small house from mud, and nearly collapsed after the technique consumed half his spiritual energy.
• Su Xing pretended to the concerned settlers that Li Ye was his sickly younger brother seeking treatment, and they discussed petitioning the immortal at East Cang Market.

Li Ye and his master arrived at East Cang Town with the relocated mortals, where Li Ye planned to build houses and learn what home meant to them before refining a second natal Magic Treasure. After Li Ye made a vow to build houses for the villagers, Heaven’s Dao responded, and he used a supposedly sacred Spirit Stone to create a house that came alive.

• Li Ye’s master explained that houses shaped by the Nine Songs: Lady Xiang could gain spirituality over time and proposed teaching Li Ye to refine a house as a second natal Magic Treasure.
• The convoy reached East Cang Town, where the newcomers received residence jade talismans and land; Liu Suiling recognized Li Ye but concealed his reaction.
• Li Ye and Jiang Su Xing pretended that Li Ye was gravely ill and brought the villagers to Chen Mo, who healed Li Ye with Immortal Light.
• Li Ye vowed to use a house-building method to provide homes for the villagers, and Heaven’s Dao answered with thunder.
• Chen Mo gave Li Ye an ordinary Spirit Stone disguised as the sect’s supreme treasure, and Li Ye used it to create a house that sprouted roots and danced around him.

Li Ye used the Xiang River Abode and Lady Xiang’s divine abilities to reshape the Song family’s home according to their wishes, giving it the power to move and a gate that let the family return from nearby. Afterward, his master reminded him to fulfill his vow and suggested bringing a young Sword Cultivator to help in East Cang Town, leaving Li Ye wondering if he meant Wei Qingye.

• Li Ye discovered that the Xiang River Abode could shrink and that binding it required more Vital Essence and spirituality.
• Li Ye promised the gathered townspeople he could build homes to their heart’s content, then asked the Song family what they wished for.
• Li Ye transformed the Song family’s home to meet their wishes, and it gained an Immortal Gate that let the family return from within a hundred li.
• Brother Song directed the house one li east, and it rose on roots and moved there before settling down.
• Li Ye left to recover from the strain, and his master told him to fulfill his vow and suggested a young Sword Cultivator help in East Cang Town.

Li Ye showed Zhou Qiumai his transformed Earth Sentiment Mycelia and entrusted him with promoting the new spirit-beast cultivation business. Li Ye and Wei Qingye then began preparing to restore Wei Qingye’s junior brother’s body, but the Heavenly Tribulation struck Li Ye instead.

• Li Ye explained the new mycelia’s benefits to Zhou Qiumai and gave him tokens and an identity jade pendant to manage the business.
• Wei Qingye asked Li Ye about the Heavenly Tribulation expected when they fashioned a body for his junior brother’s Soul Essence, and Li Ye revealed his interest in collecting tribulation energy.
• Li Ye and Wei Qingye entered the Ink-Wash World, where Li Ye’s White Fox and Gold Sand Crow greeted them.
• Li Ye led Wei Qingye to the Soul-Binding Bamboo and Culinary Coconut Tree, where Wei Qingye placed his junior brother’s Soul-Nourishing Jade inside the prepared coffin.
• A black lightning bolt struck Li Ye’s shoulder as the body-making ritual began, leaving Wei Qingye stunned.

Li Ye’s Xiang River Abode and Starfall Lamp protected him from a strange heavenly tribulation, allowing him to comprehend Lady Xiang’s Disaster-Dispelling divine ability. He began transforming the Abode into Heart Soil for a Purple Mansion, while the Life-Breath Spirit Ink Infant took shape and new visitors arrived in East Cang Town.

• Li Ye let the Xiang River Abode shelter him from the heavenly tribulation, and the Starfall Lamp turned the tribulation into starlit Wishwater.
• Li Ye realized he had comprehended Lady Xiang’s Disaster-Dispelling divine ability and coughed up the injuries the tribulation had left in him.
• Li Ye had the Mud Doll use starlit Wishwater to turn a patch of the Abode’s ground into Heart Soil, confirming his plan to create a Purple Mansion.
• Li Ye saw the Life-Breath Spirit Ink Infant forming in its coffin and decided it would need someone with exceptional luck to survive its growing calamities.
• Wei Qingye stayed in East Cang Town to help Li Ye, where the townspeople began asking about his marital status.
• Su Xing Zhenren sent laborers and Earth Tremor Worms to East Cang Town, and Duan Jiurui arrived with a squad of Forging Spirit Sect soldiers.

Li Ye learned that the Forging Spirit Sect cultivators had been made to wear imperial-style armor after their master lost a wager over attendance at his East Cang Market auction, which had drawn Ant Clan royalty from beyond the domain. After helping introduce nine Earth Tremor Worms into the market’s earth veins, Li Ye discovered they yearned for houses and took control of the veins, making all of East Cang Market shake.

• Duan Jiurui explained that True Person Su Xing had made the Forging Spirit Sect cultivators wear their armor after winning a wager about how many factions would attend Li Ye’s auction.
• Duan Jiurui showed Li Ye and Wei Qingye that Ant Clan royalty from beyond the domain had arrived, and Li Ye deduced the Earth Tremor Worms were being used to attract them with mineral veins.
• Li Ye, Wei Qingye, the Forging Spirit Sect cultivators, and Senior Brother Rat went underground to introduce nine adult Earth Tremor Worms into the earth veins.
• The Forging Spirit Sect cultivators dragged the worms through the formation, causing their blood to grow mineral flowers as the worms delighted in the contest.
• Li Ye asked the Earth Tremor Worms whether they wanted houses, sensed their yearning, and took control of the earth veins from Senior Brother Rat.
• Li Ye assumed authority over the earth veins, and East Cang Market suddenly shook violently.

Chen Mo brought the Ant Clan to see Li Ye’s Earth Tremor Worms, where they witnessed the worms producing a treasured Mineral Essence Five Elements Flower. Li Ye discovered the Ant Clan’s connection to an imitation Earth Book and secured an agreement to protect them in exchange for Yi Bing’s page.

• Chen Mo led the Ant Clan underground to see the Earth Tremor Worms and the mineral-vein tree Li Ye had created.
• Li Ye gave the Ant Clan a Mineral Essence Five Elements Flower, and his panel revealed that they were an Earth Ant Royal Clan empowered by an imitation fragment of the Earth Book.
• Chen Mo left Li Ye to receive the Ant Clan while he returned to handle the auction arrangements.
• Yi Bing showed Li Ye the Ant Clan’s Mystic Strands Mycelium, and Li Ye identified its materials and demanded that they state their intentions plainly.
• Yi Bing asked for territory where the Ant Clan could develop and offered a page from the imitation Earth Book in exchange for the Four Seasons Sect’s protection.
• Li Ye accepted Yi Bing’s offer, and the page flew into his palm, shining with auspicious light.

Li Ye uncovered Perfected Person Miao Du’s inheritance and alerted the Four Seasons Sect, which used Jianmu and the Eastern Domain as a formation to bring the antfolk world into their realm. Miao Du was rescued, passed her new Earth Book Method to Li Ye, and departed to explore other worlds.

• Li Ye used the page offered by the antfolk to discover an inheritance linked to Perfected Person Miao Du and learned that she was still alive.
• Li Ye returned to the Four Seasons Sect, where the Sect Leader and the elders identified Miao Du’s aura and called on Jianmu to act.
• Jianmu and the Four Seasons Sect activated a formation across the Eastern Domain and drew the antfolk’s world into their realm.
• The sect found and awakened Miao Du, who explained that she had become the antfolk’s deity and had left clues to bring a Four Seasons Sect disciple to her.
• Miao Du gave Li Ye her complete Earth Book Method, then left with Jianmu to seek out more worlds.
• Miao Du warned Su Xing that Li Ye’s extraordinary fortune might bring his lineage’s karma upon him.

Li Ye returned to East Cang Market and tasked Yi Bing’s ant clan with nurturing the Earth Book beneath the market, offering them a cultivation technique in return. At the East Cang Auction, shops drew fierce bids before Duan Jiurui’s master spent six hundred million Spirit Stones to win the Yam-Dragon introduction rights.

• Li Ye’s master explained that the Sect Leader wanted him to test Perfected Person Miao Du’s Earth Book inheritance and promised him Ruoquan Island as a Dao field.
• Li Ye returned to East Cang Market, where Yi Bing pledged the ant clan’s loyalty after their clan land became one of the Four Seasons Sect’s grotto-heaven worlds.
• Li Ye assigned Yi Bing’s clan to set up Earth Book formations beneath East Cang Market and offered them the introductory Classic of Great Purity and Cloud Sublimation.
• Li Ye joined Wei Qingye and the Forging Spirit Sect group at the East Cang Auction, where bidders paid twenty million Spirit Stones for the first shop pendant and Duan Jiurui’s master helped drive prices up on later lots.
• Duan Jiurui’s master outbid the auction crowd to win the Yam-Dragon introduction rights for six hundred million Spirit Stones.

Li Ye learned that Poverty Observation Mountain wanted the Tribulation Transcendence Immortal Lotus to support its efforts to divine heavenly secrets, and the sect won it at auction. A representative then approached Li Ye about a Bagua Spirit Turtle containing Ancestor Xuanyuan’s Dao Sound, leaving Li Ye questioning why Poverty Observation Mountain had preserved another sect’s secrets.

• Hu Tong presented the Tribulation Transcendence Immortal Lotus, and Poverty Observation Mountain won it for 1,200 taels of Calamity Ash and Lithe Merit Calamity Qi.
• Duan Jiurui explained that Poverty Observation Mountain might use the lotus to endure the tribulations caused by its Poverty Observation Grand Evolution Formation, and Li Ye gave Duan Jiurui a jade pendant for a shop slot.
• Li Ye saw his jade talisman glow and went to meet Perfected Person Yun Ming, who was negotiating with Third Senior Brother.
• Perfected Person Yun Ming showed Li Ye a Bagua Spirit Turtle and explained that unlocking its sealed secrets required passing a violent Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Ye recognized that the turtle carried Ancestor Xuanyuan’s Dao Sound, then asked Yun Ming whether Poverty Observation Mountain feared being held accountable for preserving other sects’ secrets.

Li Ye agreed to let Poverty Observation Mountain observe the deciphering of Ancestor Xuanyuan’s Bagua seal in exchange for their help with the Bagua Spirit Turtle’s tribulation, then discussed his sect contributions and businesses with Chen Mo. The chapter ended with Li Ye still struggling to understand the divine ability Nine Songs: Lady Xiang.

• Li Ye and Perfected Person Yun Ming signed a contract for Poverty Observation Mountain to provide Calamity Ash and calamity qi while observing the Bagua seal’s decryption.
• Chen Mo told Li Ye that tests showed his Golden Sea-Floating Stone could produce inexpensive, powerful explosives, and Li Ye donated its entire output to the sect.
• Chen Mo said Li Ye should begin preparing for the Mountain-Sea Divine Realm’s next opening and showed him Zhao He’s Spirit Leaf caravan traveling into the Northern Domain.
• Li Ye learned that the Forging Spirit Sect had contracted to buy Earth Sentiment Mycelia fodder and produce at high prices to feed Yam-Dragons.
• Li Ye described his difficulty with Nine Songs: Lady Xiang, sensing that he was close to understanding it but unable to bridge the gap between the immortal and mortal.

Li Ye watched East Cang Town’s settlers harvest Jade Aroma Melons, then Dawnlight Rice and Yam-Dragons, and realized the granary was the building that could connect mortals, cultivators, and gods. He decided to seek seeds or branches from Yuan Yan to create a spirit-tree granary and set out to meet him.

• Li Ye returned to East Cang Town and continued his house-building trial while pondering what kind of building could connect mortals and gods.
• Brother Du told Li Ye that the Jade Aroma Melons were ripe, and Yangs Sha organized the townsfolk and Jade Aroma Chá to harvest and process them.
• Li Ye shared the harvest celebration and ate freshly pounded Jade Aroma Rice cakes as the Jade Aroma Chá planted some melon seeds with their blood.
• In autumn, Li Ye watched the townsfolk harvest Dawnlight Rice and catch Yam-Dragons, then told Yangs Sha he had been thinking about a shared building.
• Li Ye realized that a granary was the answer and decided to visit Yuan Yan to seek material for a spirit-tree granary.