Chapter Summaries

After becoming Su Xing Zhenren’s disciple, Li Ye set up a shop to grow lotus flowers and sell feed made from Earth Sentiment Mycelia, recruiting Zhou Qiumai and Qian Fang to help. He returned to the spirit grounds to process more Earthfiend Ginseng and Mine Wraiths, where he noticed the Jianmu seed within him beginning to stir.

• Li Ye told Qian Fang that Su Xing Zhenren had taken him to the Myriad Gods Shrine, then learned the Earthfiend Ginseng had surfaced and proposed a livestock-feed business using it and the Earth Sentiment Mycelia.
• Qian Fang agreed to join the venture and went to capture the Earthfiend Ginseng while Li Ye moved the Flying Light Azure Lotus flowers to the Four Seasons Pavilion and asked Spirit Vine for a shop.
• Spirit Vine gave Li Ye a shop near the Four Seasons Pavilion and explained that Earth Sentiment Mycelia could become increasingly effective spirit-beast feed as it transformed.
• Li Ye opened the shop, recruited Zhou Qiumai to manage it, and asked Qian Fang to help obtain a spirit vein to sustain the lotus flowers.
• Qian Fang returned with the captured Earthfiend Ginseng, and Li Ye went back to planting Mine Wraiths in the lotuses; as he rested, he noticed the Jianmu seed inside him seemed to be sprouting.

Li Ye discovered that merit nourished the Jianmu seed and spent several days purifying Mine Wraiths before returning home to tend his newly hatched Age-Tilting Silkworms. The Jianmu seed then advanced two of his light-based spells, leaving him wondering whether the Dawnlight Seed-Soothing Art was soothing him instead of the seed.

• Li Ye realized merit could help the Jianmu seed sprout, so he purified Mine Wraiths in five mining caves to gather more.
• Qian Fang told Li Ye that his Age-Tilting Silkworms had hatched and advised him to rest while news from Senior Brother Rat was pending.
• Li Ye returned home, checked that all fifty silkworms were healthy, and let them feed on sunlight beneath the Radiant Sun Mulberry Tree.
• Li Ye helped the silkworms spin their first silk web and showed the Locust Spirit Courier how to prepare their mulberry leaves.
• Li Ye summoned the Dawnlight Bell and discovered the Jianmu seed empowered it to gather sunlight and let his Luminescence Art store and blend sunlight with moonlight.
• Li Ye wondered whether the Dawnlight Seed-Soothing Art was soothing him, since the Jianmu seed had no spirituality of its own.

Li Ye refined the Sun-Moon Rings and stayed home to tend his spirit plants while the sect’s disciples fought the Mine Wraiths. After bonding an Earthfiend Ginseng with a Harmonious Spirit Lotus, he discovered the ginseng could transform soil and water and that the lotus could slowly enhance his Divine Sense.

• Li Ye used Moon Essence Spirit Metal, his essence blood, and Aura of Golden Fortune to refine the Sun-Moon Rings as his natal Magic Tool.
• Li Ye received an Earthfiend Ginseng as a reward and sent his spirit bee honey to the Zhou Family, where Qian Fang drank it and fell asleep.
• Li Ye bonded the Earthfiend Ginseng with a lotus, and it transformed the pond’s mud and water into an environment suited to the Harmonious Spirit Lotus.
• The Earthfiend Ginseng revealed its ancestral ability to alter soil and water, and Li Ye placed a restriction on it with a Seal Character.
• The lotus’s fragrance enhanced Li Ye’s Divine Sense slightly, leaving him to wonder whether its seeds, roots, and leaves could do the same.

Li Ye learned that the Demonic Qi Mine had been stabilized, collected the Earth Sentiment Mycelia, and submitted his mission. He and Qian Fang finished preparing the mycelia shop, set its prices and shares, and planned to open it the next day.

• Senior Brother Rat told Li Ye that a Demonic Qi Mine was forming, its leak had been sealed, and Li Ye’s task could end.
• Li Ye collected the Earth Sentiment Mycelia’s true body, received more than seven hundred thousand Spirit Stones from Zhou Qiumai, and asked him to spread word about the shop.
• Spirit Vine accepted Li Ye’s mission items and awarded Qian Fang an opportunity to enter the Jadeite Dew Cleansing Grotto Heaven.
• Li Ye and Qian Fang set the mycelia feed’s price at ten Spirit Stones per jin and inspected the shop’s automated counters and formation.
• Qian Fang showed Li Ye the jade cage that fed resentment to the mycelia and prepared its products for sale.
• Li Ye proposed giving Zhou Qiumai half a share and splitting the rest evenly with Qian Fang, and they looked forward to opening the shop.

Li Ye and Qian Fang opened a shop selling Earth Sentiment Fodder, and its quality and purchase limits made it a sensation in Returning Shore Market. After sharing profits with Zhou Qiumai, they asked him to find a reliable source of resentment for their business.

• Rogue Cultivators bought Earth Sentiment Fodder, and a cultivator's White Ink Water Buffaloes devoured it and produced five extra pounds of milk.
• Li Ye set a daily sales limit of twenty thousand Spirit Stones' worth of fodder, and the stock sold out before noon.
• Cultivators returned after midnight to buy the next day's supply, while others stayed in Returning Shore Market to avoid missing out.
• After seven days, Qian Fang and Li Ye gave Zhou Qiumai half a percent of the profits, totaling seven thousand Spirit Stones.
• Qian Fang asked Zhou Qiumai to find a stable source of resentment, and Zhou Qiumai resolved to prove his abilities.

Li Ye’s Bitter Spirit Gourd merged with his Earth Turtle and produced a new species of gourd-backed hatchlings. After caring for them, he visited the Four Seasons Pavilion, bought Five Elements gourd seeds, and received an offer to supply the sect with honey.

• Zhou Qiumai agreed to collect resentment-soaked items for Li Ye’s Earth Sentiment Mycelia business, while Li Ye and Qian Fang planned to divide the profits monthly.
• Li Ye returned home and watched the Earth Turtle shed and regrow its shell as the Bitter Spirit Gourd fused with it and became the Turtle Spirit Gourd.
• Li Ye discovered that the Turtle Spirit Gourd and Earth Turtle had produced more than thirty Gourd Spirit Turtle hatchlings, which filled their back gourds with spring water before sleeping in his spirit field.
• Li Ye examined the Four Seasons Pavilion’s gourd inventory and bought ten seeds each of the metal, wood, water, fire, and earth varieties.
• Spirit Vine offered Li Ye a contract from the sect’s Alchemy Hall to supply honey, and Li Ye read it with growing surprise.

Li Ye expanded his Crystalline Honey production and received a storage ring as an inner disciple. A recording from Su Ya revealed that the honey had attracted the interest of the Yang Radiance Lineage, whose young clan leader sent him valuable pearls and planned to discuss cooperation.

• Li Ye agreed to supply the sect with Crystalline Honey and accepted a hundred Hungry Bones to purify, along with his inner disciple storage ring from Spirit Vine.
• Li Ye bought Dew-Bearing Magnolia trees and Crystalline Spirit Bees, bound them together, and bound ten Gourd Spirit Turtles to plant Five Elements Gourd seeds.
• Over the next ten days, Li Ye tended his Earth Sentiment Mycelia and resentment-extraction work as his fodder shop sold twenty thousand Spirit Stones' worth of fodder daily.
• The Locust Spirit Courier brought Li Ye an Image-Recording Pearl and a gift from Su Ya, who introduced Yang Ke, the young clan leader of the Yang Radiance Lineage.
• Yang Ke explained that his clan wanted to cooperate over Li Ye's honey and had sent representatives to Returning Shore Market; Su Ya urged Li Ye to ask for merfolk specialties instead of Spirit Stones.
• Li Ye watched Su Ya show him an underwater palace and opened Yang Ke's gift, finding three enormous silver pearls.

Li Ye traded spirit honey with Shu Yao, the envoy of Yang Ke, for Merfolk Clan specialties and arranged a long-term contract. He also bought a storage box suited for snow energy so he could use arriving Snowbloom Fawns to awaken his dormant Flint Crystal Worm and Silver Moon Grass.

• Li Ye drew moon-essence spiritual power from a Moon Nectar Pearl into his Sun-Moon Rings and decided to trade for more pearls.
• Shu Yao visited on Yang Ke’s behalf, and Li Ye agreed to sell spirit honey for 1,200 Spirit Stones per jin.
• Li Ye chose Wangshu Tears, Spirit Spring Pearls, and ten Snowbloom Fawns from the Merfolk Clan’s trade list, then used the remaining credit to request Spirit Gathering Coral Trees.
• Shu Yao and Li Ye signed a long-term contract for at least ten jin of honey per month, with future deliveries to pass through her sect’s channels.
• Li Ye bought a Pocket Mountain-River Box capable of storing snow energy and planned to use it when the Snowbloom Fawns arrived to awaken his Flint Crystal Worm and Silver Moon Grass.

Li Ye revived the Flint Crystal Worms and Silver Moon Grass in his Pocket Mountain-River Box, then collected his share of the fodder shop’s profits and sought Five Elements Qi. A visitor answering his notice turned out to be Wei Qingye, whose Sword-Vein Shoot was near death despite appearing healthy.

• Li Ye moved the Snowbloom Fawns, Spirit Gathering Coral Trees, Flint Crystal Worms, and Silver Moon Grass into the Pocket Mountain-River Box, where the worms awakened and the grass began to revive.
• Li Ye found that the Gourd Spirit Turtles had changed alongside their sprouting gourd seeds and considered the Five Elements Qi they would need to mature.
• Li Ye and Qian Fang each received 285,000 Spirit Stones from the Earth Sentiment Fodder Shop’s profits.
• Li Ye posted a notice seeking Five Elements Qi, and Wei Qingye arrived at Four Seasons Pavilion to answer it.
• Li Ye inspected Wei Qingye’s Sword-Vein Shoot, saw that it would die within half a shichen, and warned him that it was going to die.

Li Ye helped Wei Qingye reconcile with the Sword-Vein Shoot and discovered that the encounter brought merit to the Jianmu seed. He used the Five Elements Qi Wei Qingye gave him to nourish two Gourd Spirit Turtles, then began refining Harmonious Spirit Lotus seeds into pills and prepared to leave Returning Shore Market soon.

• Li Ye used the Dawnlight Bell to help Wei Qingye communicate with the Sword-Vein Shoot, which accepted a complete fusion with Wei Qingye and gave Li Ye merit.
• Spirit Vine explained that Wei Qingye's fortune and Li Ye's past good deeds had earned them merit, and warned Li Ye to judge carefully before helping others.
• Li Ye gave Jia Wood Qi and Gui Water Qi to two Gourd Spirit Turtles and posted a notice seeking more Five Elements Qi.
• The Earthfiend Ginseng taught Li Ye a method for making Lotus Pills with a lotus lamp, offering its own essence, energy, and spirit to fuel the process.
• Li Ye crafted and lit a jade lotus lamp, which would take seven days to refine the pills, and noted that the Age-Tilting Silkworm's silk would be ready around the same time as his departure from the market.

Li Ye harvested Age-Tilting Silkworm cocoons and discovered that the Harmonious Spirit Lotus produced Lotus Pills that boosted his Vital Essence, Divine Sense, and Spiritual Energy. When You Tian arrived, Li Ye said goodbye to Spirit Vine and Qian Fang and traveled by the Earth Vein River to the Four Seasons Sect, where Su Ya called out to him.

• Wei Qingye visited Li Ye, gave him three bottles of Gui Water Qi, and showed that his Sword-Vein Shoot had recovered completely.
• Li Ye fed Life-Breath Spirit Ink to five Age-Tilting Silkworms, then sent the harvested cocoons to Senior Brother Qian.
• Li Ye ate a Lotus Pill and found it added a hundred points of Vital Essence while also strengthening his Divine Sense and Spiritual Energy.
• You Tian arrived to take Li Ye to the sect, and Spirit Vine gave Li Ye Earthfiend Ginseng while Qian Fang advanced him a share of Spirit Stones.
• You Tian carried Li Ye through the Earth Vein River to the Four Seasons Sect, where Su Ya called out to him.

Li Ye completed assessments for the Earth Sentiment Technique, Dawnlight Seed-Soothing Art, and Five Elements Ascending Spirit Art, earning A-plus in all three and receiving three valuable treasures. He returned to Su Ya, who offered to take him to Heaven's Question Mountain Range to find a cave abode and explain the sect.

• Su Ya explained that Li Ye would be assessed on his three techniques at God Jade Valley, and Li Ye entered the first trial.
• Li Ye used the Earth Sentiment Technique to restore a small patch of barren land, earning a Grade A-High assessment and advancing to the second layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Li Ye rang his Dawnlight Bell, causing the East Lord Sun-Welcoming Flowers to send their spiritual power into it, and earned a top-grade A assessment.
• Li Ye released his Spiritual Energy in the final trial, revealing the gratitude of numerous spirit beasts and plants, including a Jianmu tree, and received A-plus ratings in all three stages.
• The guide awarded Li Ye an Immaculate Spirit Field, East Lord Sun Metal, and an Eight Trigrams Sky-Void Plate, citing his bond with the spirit beings and Su Xing Zhenren's instructions.
• Li Ye returned to Su Ya and told him he had earned A-plus in every trial; Su Ya then offered to take him to find a cave abode and tell him about the sect.

Li Ye arrived at the Four Seasons Sect’s Heaven’s Question Mountain Range and established his cave dwelling, using his Spirit Stones to add facilities for his spirit plants and beasts. After moving his courtyard and its inhabitants into the vast new home, he began considering how to build a team to manage it.

• Su Ya explained that Heaven’s Question Mountain Range offered inner sect disciples spacious cave dwellings with spirit veins and springs, then showed Li Ye how to claim one with his identity jade token.
• Li Ye claimed a hundred-mu cave dwelling and used his Spirit Energy Orb to place his familiar courtyard atop its third-rank, five-element spirit vein.
• Li Ye inspected the cave-abode upgrades and spent Spirit Stones on a spirit river, sunlight and snow spirit grounds, a moonlight spirit ground, a spirit mine, and a small stream.
• Li Ye moved his spirit plants and beasts into the new grounds, persuading the reluctant Beavers to leave the courtyard for their nearby creek.
• Li Ye installed spatial gateways around the cave dwelling and wondered whether he should buy spirit beasts to help with the work.

Li Ye planned how to develop his cave abode and, with Su Ya’s help, visited Mystic Water Pool to learn about aquatic spirit materials. He bought a pair of Mystic Water Dragons and supplies for their river habitat, leaving the water’s cultivation plan in place.

• Li Ye sent Zhao He to Returning Shore Market to buy one hundred Dew-Bearing Magnolias and matching Crystalline Spirit Bees, and marked out plans for other areas of his cave abode.
• Li Ye asked Su Ya how cultivators could find help managing their cave abodes, and Su Ya suggested that Li Ye’s Micro-Stream Beavers could recruit more beavers.
• Li Ye examined Su Ya’s list of aquatic spirit materials and chose to visit Mystic Water Pool to learn about Mystic Water Dragons.
• Spirit-Dragon explained that Mystic Water Dragons were third-rank spirit beasts that tended aquatic Spirit Materials, and Li Ye bought one male and one female young dragon for forty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Li Ye selected the two young dragons he could bind and spent another seventy thousand Spirit Stones on Azure Ripple Carp, Thousand-Tentacle Jellyfish, Mystic Crystal Algae, Kan-Life Yams, and other materials for their river habitat.

Li Ye bought spirit plants and beasts, then arranged an aquatic ecosystem and a Snowbloom habitat in his cave abode. He discovered that his Silver Moon Grass had grown more Moon Nectar Pearls and wondered whether the sect still wanted them.

• Su Ya took Li Ye to the winter market, where Li Ye learned that Spirit Herbalists had been reassigned and that his master, Su Xing, would examine him.
• Li Ye spent most of his remaining Spirit Stones on the Wintergreen Banyan, Azure Ice Needle Pine, Snow Treading Spirit Deer, and Mist Ripple Radish.
• Li Ye bound the Mystic Water Dragons to the Kan-Life Yam and released them, the Azure Ripple Carp, Thousand-Tentacle Jellyfish, and Mystic Crystal Algae into his cave abode’s water system.
• The Snow Treading Spirit Deer knelt to acknowledge Li Ye as their master, and he bound Mist Ripple Radishes for them to eat.
• Li Ye planted the Wintergreen Banyan Trees and Azure Ice Needle Pines, then found fire seeds and Moon Nectar Pearls growing on his Silver Moon Grass.

Li Ye discovered that his pearls were Moon Radiance Pearls rather than Moon Nectar Pearls, then learned an unrecorded spirit beast could earn merit. Perfected Person Su confirmed his Gourd Spirit Turtle was unique and offered him support to breed its kind, just as Perfected Person You Tian arrived.

• Li Ye registered his pure Moon Radiance Pearls for sale and collected his inner disciple manuals and a jade slip from Su Xing Zhenren.
• Li Ye reviewed sect missions and found that cultivating a spirit beast or plant absent from the sect registry could earn one hundred taels of merit.
• Li Ye asked the Hall of Affairs to inspect his Gourd Spirit Turtle, and Perfected Person Su opened a spatial gateway to bring it before her.
• Perfected Person Su used the Shennong Ruler to determine that the turtle came from a Bitter Spirit Gourd and an Earth Turtle and could absorb spiritual energy from almost any gourd.
• Perfected Person Su offered Li Ye one hundred taels of merit, spirit land, and material support to breed the turtles, and Li Ye agreed.
• Perfected Person You Tian suddenly stepped through a spatial gateway and joined Li Ye and Su Yu.

Li Ye received help from Perfected Person You Tian and went to Mount Taiqi to recruit Wen Yao Fish to manage his cave abode. After the Wen Yao Fish began working, Li Ye used their arrival to spur his Micro-Stream Beavers into recruiting more of their kin.

• Perfected Person You Tian gave Li Ye a Five Elements Spirit Jade Spring and a token to request young Wen Yao Fish for his cave abode.
• Li Ye traveled to Mount Taiqi, where the Wen Yao Fish clan chief recognized You Tian's token and sent him three young Wen Yao Fish with a jade slip.
• The three Wen Yao Fish immediately cleaned and tended Li Ye's cave abode, impressing him with their abilities.
• The Micro-Stream Beavers saw the newcomers working and clung to Li Ye, seeking his attention.
• Li Ye urged the Micro-Stream Beavers to gather more of their kin and led them toward the Micro-Stream, their ancestral homeland.

Li Ye brought more than a hundred Micro-Stream Beavers back to his cave abode, where they quickly organized themselves and began working. After using the sect’s merit reward to nourish the Jianmu seed and planting Five Elements Spirit Gourds with his Gourd Spirit Turtles, he prepared to study his master’s materials and work on his artifacts.

• Li Ye visited Weichuan, where his five beavers impressed the local clans with their comfortable appearance and food illusions, prompting them to select more than a hundred beavers to accompany him.
• The Weichuan Water God gave Li Ye a contract requiring him to care for the beavers, and Li Ye accepted it before leading them home.
• The newly arrived beavers organized work around Li Ye’s cave abode, while his original beavers lounged nearby.
• Li Ye absorbed the sect’s hundred-tael merit reward into the Jianmu seed, which still needed ten more taels of merit to sprout.
• Li Ye bound Five Elements Spirit Gourd seeds to his Gourd Spirit Turtles and used the Earth Sentiment Technique to plant and water them in his spirit fields.
• After completing the fields, Li Ye planned to study his master’s books and jade slips, forge the Dawnlight Bell, and deal with the Eight Trigrams Sky-Void Plate.

Li Ye studied the Heartfelt Melody, then tested his new treasures and discovered the Eight Trigrams Sky-Void Plate could summon his spirit beasts. Zhao He returned with a Longevity Tablet and offerings from Tianhe City, and Li Ye began training him as a cultivator.

• Li Ye spent half a month studying the Heartfelt Melody but could only condense its Heart Melody briefly before giving up to avoid Qi Deviation.
• Li Ye coated the Dawnlight Bell with East Lord Sun Metal, strengthening its chime and letting it gather sunlight.
• Li Ye used the Eight Trigrams Sky-Void Plate to summon Beaver and recorded the spirit plants and beasts in his cave abode on the plate.
• Zhao He returned with over a hundred Dew-Bearing Magnolias, remaining Spirit Stones, food from Tianhe City, and a Longevity Tablet bearing Li Ye's name.
• Li Ye received merit from the Longevity Tablet and told Zhao He to begin training with a Crimson-Gold Dragon Carp scale and a Spirit Water Phoenix-Eye Lotus gourd.

Li Ye studied the Four Seasons Sect’s books, then discovered that Ink Silk from his Ink-Born Silkworms could grow into edible Kan-Life Yam tubers. He went to Su Ya’s cave dwelling to trade his harvest, where he met three inner disciples eager to see his spiritual materials.

• Li Ye read the sect’s spell compendium, guides to the Five Regions and cultivation arts, and decided to ask his master which side discipline to pursue.
• Over the next month, Li Ye tended his cave’s plants and beasts, and his Age-Tilting Silkworms spun ink-colored silk and changed into Ink-Born Silkworms.
• Li Ye learned that Ink-Born Silkworms could bond with spatial-attribute spirit herbs and tested their silk on a Kan-Life Yam.
• The Ink Silk joined the yam’s roots, absorbed Spiritual Energy and water vapor, and grew into edible tubers, which the Mystic Water Dragon promptly bit into.
• Li Ye gathered his harvest and traveled to Su Ya’s cave dwelling, where Su Ya introduced him to alchemists Junior Apprentice Jiang and Junior Apprentice Ye, and Formation Master Senior Apprentice Wang.
• Junior Apprentice Jiang eyed Li Ye’s ring greedily and expressed interest in his spiritual materials.